World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder. Calls for lower minimum wage and tax cuts

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crissindahouse said:

superchunk said:
There's nothing really wrong with what she said and I'm not rich.

I came from very poor background... i.e homeless a couple times. I worked my ass off as did my wife. We both now have Master level educations and a family income of six figures USD.

During college I did not go out and party each night/weekend, I did not join a dumb ass frat house.. don't need to pay to have friends... instead I worked 40hrs a week at retail and busted my ass in a computer lab.

Worked hard early to play more later. :)

yeah but that wouldn't work if everyone would do that. not everyone can work as whatever you do, there are only limited ressources for something you can make good money with. it's not as if everyone on this planet could open an own company to make some money or that everyone could work for a company at a postion to make enough money. there doesn't come money from nowhere for everyone and it's not as if there wouldn't be still the jobs people don't get enough money for which the same amount of people have to do like they do nowadays. we don't have robots who can do all the low paid jobs on this planet, with you who doesn't have to do the low paid jobs anymore, there is someone else who has to do it now instead of you.

That's actually not true.  Money does "come from nowhere" as value is increased by new products getting introduced into the economy.

Additionally, as low level workforce dereaeses demand increases and so does wages.  For example in North Dakota it's something like $12 an hour to work at McDonalds.

Everyone coulnd't be rich relativly, but compaired to how we are now... everyone would be "rich."  Just how, the poor now, are better off then rhe Rich of say the 1970's.