Canadian Oligarch Praises Growing Income Inequality as "Inspiration" For The Wretched Masses

[Fred Sanders]

“This is a great thing because it inspires everybody, gives "them" (said wretched masses) motivation to look up to the 1%.."

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/21/kevin-oleary-inequality_n_4637887.html

[bemildred]

1. Greed is inspiring? nt

[HughBeaumont]

2. Utterly. Stupid. Fuck.

And illogical.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wanting_it_bad_enough

"Wanting it bad enough" is a "strategy" for achieving just about any goal promoted by a multiplicity of public figures, from self-help writers to mainstream celebrities, who all have one thing in common: they have already achieved their goals. These people like to talk up their own hard work by saying that:

1.They got where they are simply or largely because they wanted it bad enough.
2.You too can achieve your dream, so long as you want it bad enough as well.

Of course, none of these people's success can be in any way attributed to factors outside their own direct personal control such as patronage, privilege, opportunity or simple dumb luck.

There is also the flip side, of "blaming the victim." If you do not have the success you want, it is your fault because you didn't really want it badly enough. It has nothing to do with a bad economy, or the flat out odds against something happening.

[treestar]

6. Think and Grow Rich

Everyone wanted to believe that stuff in the 80s.

[hobbit709]

3. Here's an inspiration for him.

the good doctor's invention.

[SamKnause]

4. Oligarch

Fuck you Kevin O'Leary.

Fuck the 85 crooked asshats that control the world's wealth.

They are no inspiration to me.

[laundry_queen]

5. I won't click

on anything with Kevin O'Leary in it.

He's the biggest asswipe on earth. It's the only show on CBC that makes me change my channel as fast as I can. He is a selfish, pompous POS who is one of THOSE who thinks he simply worked harder than anyone else. There are few lower than this loser on the air. I don't hate many people on air, but he is one of them. The worst part, he is like my ex - I think he enjoys when people hate him. He loves having that power over people. It's game for him. He's a true psychopath. Loves telling everyone his outrageous beliefs to shock them. He loves advertising about how little he cares about anything but money. He thinks it's a virtue.

The good thing is - he shows you how rich arrogant assholes think. He is always touting free market solutions - he doesn't really have a clue about the actual free market. He yells about the market not being free because of government intervention but when asked if employers should pay more because CEOs make ridiculous amounts, he says the market will decide. I thought the market wasn't currently 'free', Kevin. How can the market decide with all these regulations. You can't have it both ways, buddy. Besides, everyone knows 'the market will decide' is code for 'the 1% gets to decide'. Because that's who really controls the market. So the 1% decides how much CEOs get paid. Yep, sounds ethical to me.

Again, I won't give him the click. Loser.

[Foolacious]

7. Your thread title confused me.

I was honestly all set to read something fairly positive about this person. But I think you meant "... Growing Income INequality...". Yes?