If you produced $5k of value per day, every day of the year, from birth until death, and lived 150 years, you could live 3 lifetimes and still not have produced $1 billion in value. You don't become ultra rich by producing value; the only feasible way, mathematically, is through benefitting from systems that reappropriate the value produced by other people.
I’ve officially lost all respect for Kevin O’Leary. I pulled up my socks and became successful, but I was in a place where success can happen and I can honestly see where so many don’t even have these opportunities and those opportunities have changed due to poor management of political power, inflation, wars, etc. These generations that came after me have it even harder than I did and I’m not wildly successful by no means. I simply can afford to live even after all these sacrifices while dealing with those in management that try and shut you down if they see you building up and getting stronger. I worked my ass off sacrificing so much time I wished I could get back and do different. I lost my son and I will always look back and say “was it worth it”? Is the money even worth it and why do we have to have all this stuff. We’re constantly marketed to by their same shifty products so they can make a buck and sometimes I feel as if that’s a trap to entice people out of their money and makes me wonder is our society even right about anything? Have we been lied to for so long that the lie has become the truth? Why don’t families have time together anymore? Why is every moment supposed to be about capitalism and ‘murica? Who the hell are these morons that keep sayin ‘murica? Why the hell is so much fentanyl being trafficked into our places where we should feel safe and why do our kids have to face that problem? What the hell do you Uber rich even do with all that money? It sure as hell isn’t making this world a better place or bridging any divides! Why do you need more money when you’ve got so much🤔? It’s like a damn spell on us as a civilization and we just can’t break free and see that money isn’t everything and we haven’t found the way yet!
The only “smart” thing Elon Musk has ever done, imo, is convincing people he got to be head of Tesla by being “smart,” and not via his family’s South African blood diamond money.
There are 85 of him, there are 3.5 billion of them. If what he is saying is true, then there would be a hell of a lot more then just 85...the percentage is just astounding.
He also falls victim to the "I did it through hard work, you could have this too if you worked as hard as I do" fallacy which ignores the fact that not everyone can develop their own educational software and sell it to Broderbund for a ton of money.
It is technically feasible for just about anybody to make it into the elite; that’s a big element of their propaganda. You don’t HAVE to be from a certain family; look, see this one in a million example of a poor kid from the streets who is now a billionaire, it could be you!
Why do people here keep saying there’s nothing special about billionaires? Maybe there is, maybe there’s not. Why does that even matter? There is inarguably something special about say, the world’s tallest woman, or about Roger Penrose. Do we think they should therefore own half the fruits of all human labour, and have bank accounts bigger than Nigeria’s GDP?
Why is it okay by reddit's rules to say eat the rich when the end result is death, but you cannot say kill the rich when the end result is death? I would think death by being eaten alive is morally worse than being killed by a shot to the head.
He's more like the guy you should shit on with the feces produced from the digestion of other rich people you ate. He's a peon compared to the bezos, rothschild, zuckerberg, musk, apple hoarders of wealth.
What does it say about the state of Canadian media when Amanda Lang, who was meant to be some sort of progressive foil to O’Leary was herself mired in scandal for allegedly trying to kill a story that would harm her partner’s bank.
A celebrity through television who brags about his wealth to everyone he meets and thinks his wealth alone indicates an ability to run a large country.
Capitalists will ALWAYS back fascists when they feel threatened by workers gaining power. This is nothing new. Capitalists are anti-worker and always have been. They thrive on exploitation and will turn to authoritarians in a heartbeat if it means they get to keep their wealth and power.
People like him think the only reason to live is to become filthy rich one day. What a delusional asshole, but you know what they say: rich people usually don’t see poor as human.
People like him are the perfect illustration of how the 1% does not give a single fuck about you. He views anybody who isn't in the 1% just as a tool to help make himself wealthy. Fuck this guy.
Really think about that stat for a second. 85 people have more wealth than 3.5 billion people combined. Eighty five. Did you know people actually have a really difficult time comprehending how big a billion is? Like they can't even understand the number that well. They know the number, they know how many zeros it is, but it's so large, it's hard to realistically comprehend. It's like light-years and comprehending the vastness of deep space.
" I'm going to tell you what you should have said later" nah bitch do it live I wanna see it. Her look was priceless though, well maybe worth .02% of the wealth of the top 1%
Well if she'd come out and yelled, "You should have just responded, 'I'm a dumbass with no soul!' and saved me 2 minutes of idiocy," the network would have fired her, and then she'd be a part of that statistic.
No she should of stood up and straight b at his ass on national tv and then we see how wonderful he is ..we could post her bail and tie it up in court ...
This poor news anchor has no idea that she’s talking to a sociopathic aristocrat who is hell-bent on justifying the exploitation of labourers for the benefit of the 1% no matter how illogical and immoral his argument makes him sound.
If you work real hard you could be rich some day, like shut the fuck up dude. You know how many people I watch work really fucking hard and will never be even close to rich. Take away his privileges and throw him in a coal mine and tell him if he works hard enough he might get his old life back.
I mean the premise of shark tank is im gonna aquire starting off businesses for a cheap as possible so I can harvest them for money so wouldn't his presence on shark tank make him trash as is?
Redistribution of wealth will NEVER happen again? Not too long ago in human history we were chopping the heads off the wealthy, so yea, I think the tide can turn pretty quick.
This is the brain washing we have all endured. “Pull up your boot straps and be motivated while I don’t pay any taxes and you’re too busy trying to survive, to vote to change the tax inequality”
We need to take a lesson from capitalists and make them work menial jobs for almost no pay, in horrible conditions, and a quota meant for someone doing dangerous amounts of meth, 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, ten minute breaks, and that means scan to scan people.*you have to make the word people sound like an insult here mandatory*
Jesus. She is pretty badass. I’m more impressed by her standing her ground than him being a fucking idiot. Him being an idiot is almost expected. Her telling him to fuck off politely is refreshing.
“If you work hard you might be stinking rich one day”. That’s his argument. It’s not even the discontented billionaire syndrome thing, because it directly acknowledges that most people - even amongst those who try - will never achieve it. It’s just the dehumanising veneration of greed for the sake of continuing to play pretend, to keep up appearances.
Ultrawealthy people don't get rich by working hard, if it's not already obvious the poorest people work the hardest out of all of us while the richest sit on their asses & let their wealth do all the heavy lifting...the meritocracy is a myth. If everyone got what they deserved, based entirely off of how much work you put in, the script would be entirely flipped
Big yikes. Either Kevin is exorbitantly stupid and lucky to have disgusting wealth, or he is playing the evil side and trying to convince the peasants to work harder so he can pay them less, while lying to them that they will be rich like he is today. No one wakes up and decides to work harder and becomes rich, that's literally never happened in all of history. You are either born with it or inherent wealth, you get extremely lucky, or you found a way to scam and screw others to make your own wealth. There is no other way, and working harder is not how you make money.
I have ZERO problem with overly successful people. I don’t cry knowing someone out there is running in first place at the olympics while I struggle to get a passable time for a fitness test.
Billionaires can only become Billionaires by exploiting. You cannot, by yourself, generate that much wealth. There is by definition no work one person can do across sufficient number of customers to generate that much wealth.
Dude thinks he won that argument. There's no changing his mind.
She's playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how smart her moves are he's gonna shit all over the board and act like he won.
"We're talking about people in extreme, abject poverty!"
There's no changing his mind with words*
There was no changing his mind. It was already paid to say that
That's the problem with those people. They think every discussion is a debate/confrontation. Can't hold a basic conversation.
We don’t have to change his mind.. we just have to free it from his body
Especially that last line of “you were talking about rich people, not poor people”
The biggest joke in this is the assumption that the existence of an astronomically wealthy group is proof that anyone can be astronomically wealthy.
Damn, I hate that "we can all be like that if we're smart and work hard".
I was just going to say “fuck that guy”, but you outlined my reasons for that sentiment quite succinctly, so thank you for that!
"Oh, I just started this business with my money (which I inherited from my parents and was around 1billion), so you can do it too!"
If you produced $5k of value per day, every day of the year, from birth until death, and lived 150 years, you could live 3 lifetimes and still not have produced $1 billion in value. You don't become ultra rich by producing value; the only feasible way, mathematically, is through benefitting from systems that reappropriate the value produced by other people.
Survivorship Bias
I’ve officially lost all respect for Kevin O’Leary. I pulled up my socks and became successful, but I was in a place where success can happen and I can honestly see where so many don’t even have these opportunities and those opportunities have changed due to poor management of political power, inflation, wars, etc. These generations that came after me have it even harder than I did and I’m not wildly successful by no means. I simply can afford to live even after all these sacrifices while dealing with those in management that try and shut you down if they see you building up and getting stronger. I worked my ass off sacrificing so much time I wished I could get back and do different. I lost my son and I will always look back and say “was it worth it”? Is the money even worth it and why do we have to have all this stuff. We’re constantly marketed to by their same shifty products so they can make a buck and sometimes I feel as if that’s a trap to entice people out of their money and makes me wonder is our society even right about anything? Have we been lied to for so long that the lie has become the truth? Why don’t families have time together anymore? Why is every moment supposed to be about capitalism and ‘murica? Who the hell are these morons that keep sayin ‘murica? Why the hell is so much fentanyl being trafficked into our places where we should feel safe and why do our kids have to face that problem? What the hell do you Uber rich even do with all that money? It sure as hell isn’t making this world a better place or bridging any divides! Why do you need more money when you’ve got so much🤔? It’s like a damn spell on us as a civilization and we just can’t break free and see that money isn’t everything and we haven’t found the way yet!
The only “smart” thing Elon Musk has ever done, imo, is convincing people he got to be head of Tesla by being “smart,” and not via his family’s South African blood diamond money.
The biggest mindfuck capitalism pulls is convincing serfs that anyone can become lord
Well said.
Yes!
The rich are basically a monarchy. Let’s be honest here
Extreme wealth is the modern version divine right to rule.
Why do we allow these people to continue using our air after saying things like this?
There are 85 of him, there are 3.5 billion of them. If what he is saying is true, then there would be a hell of a lot more then just 85...the percentage is just astounding.
It's the same as the divine right to rule. Nothing has changed but the rhetoric
Username checks out
He also falls victim to the "I did it through hard work, you could have this too if you worked as hard as I do" fallacy which ignores the fact that not everyone can develop their own educational software and sell it to Broderbund for a ton of money.
Sometimes they share a father who also had money
And the one making the monarch claim just happens to be in the ruling class. Weird how that works.
It is technically feasible for just about anybody to make it into the elite; that’s a big element of their propaganda. You don’t HAVE to be from a certain family; look, see this one in a million example of a poor kid from the streets who is now a billionaire, it could be you!
We've made the lottery an economic system.
He said “we’re not going to redistribute wealth again, it’s never going to happen.”
If avoid major medical emergencies and eat only rice maybe my monthly savings will be enough investment capital to spring into riches when I’m 50.
They’re criminals. All of them.
People have to believe they can win the lottery or else they'll never buy a lottery ticket.
There was an example (a few actually) in a cracked.com article about poverty.
There is also no further proof that those in poverty must remain there.
If all you had to do was work hard, slaves would be the wealthiest people in the world.
And Jk rowling isnt a billionaire anymore because she donated a heap of it and paid her taxes on the rest.
Which traits?
Why do people here keep saying there’s nothing special about billionaires? Maybe there is, maybe there’s not. Why does that even matter? There is inarguably something special about say, the world’s tallest woman, or about Roger Penrose. Do we think they should therefore own half the fruits of all human labour, and have bank accounts bigger than Nigeria’s GDP?
He is now #1 in line for when i eat the rich.
I would join you but I can't digest something this disgusting.
Its coming too. People think the shits a joke.
just turn him into compost he is to old and lack important nutrient
I'm sure he'd taste Wonderful
I'm veggie so can we just pull out the guillotine already?
I am vegan so I say burn them all in a bonfire for burning us
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Why is it okay by reddit's rules to say eat the rich when the end result is death, but you cannot say kill the rich when the end result is death? I would think death by being eaten alive is morally worse than being killed by a shot to the head.
He's more like the guy you should shit on with the feces produced from the digestion of other rich people you ate. He's a peon compared to the bezos, rothschild, zuckerberg, musk, apple hoarders of wealth.
For today's chef special sir, we have the Kevin O'Leary, a prime cut cooked medium rare and served with a nice side of mashed potatoes
except u wont ever lol
The best part about shows like this or Shark Tank is that it tells me exactly whose families to target if anything actually goes down.
Let me propose to you my deal. $50,000 for 50% of the liver, with a 10% royalty every year.
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What does it say about the state of Canadian media when Amanda Lang, who was meant to be some sort of progressive foil to O’Leary was herself mired in scandal for allegedly trying to kill a story that would harm her partner’s bank.
And allegedly leftist entertainment industry will keep giving him a platform onnTV to get famous amd elected
Most canadian subs will argue you into oblivion asking for "Proof" that Maxime Bernier is racist.
A celebrity through television who brags about his wealth to everyone he meets and thinks his wealth alone indicates an ability to run a large country.
Capitalists will ALWAYS back fascists when they feel threatened by workers gaining power. This is nothing new. Capitalists are anti-worker and always have been. They thrive on exploitation and will turn to authoritarians in a heartbeat if it means they get to keep their wealth and power.
People like him think the only reason to live is to become filthy rich one day. What a delusional asshole, but you know what they say: rich people usually don’t see poor as human.
Hell even middleclass people don't see the poor as human.
People like him are the perfect illustration of how the 1% does not give a single fuck about you. He views anybody who isn't in the 1% just as a tool to help make himself wealthy. Fuck this guy.
None of us have a concept of 'enough'.
They see life as a competition and just want to get rich to “win”… something???
“If you work really hard, one day you can be a vacuous asshole just like me!”
So, she said the 85 richest people in the world and he then equated it to the 1% which is monumentally wrong they aren't the 1% they're the 0.000001%
I was just thinking that. This guy can't do math and he's a billionaire?
This clip is pretty old and at the time "the 1%" was the common enemy of sorts.
If it's so easy to get filthy rich then why does such a small percent own so much of the wealth?
When we say eat the rich, it's this type we mean
kill the fucking masters
Exactly, we don't target our local shopowners that are stressing out to be able to pay this months rent for their store location.
is it something they put in our water/food that makes us docile?
Good capitalist = good grifter
More fuckery by rich using insider information to take profits off the back of the investors..
Ah, so he's a sleaze ball schmuck then with nothing going for him other than slimey ooze.
tl;dr He got his and you should be like him /s
Ah yes, the classic "fucking people over makes me a smart and shrewd businesseman" angle.
Oh fuck him.
I can’t believe people (mostly corporate politicians and the republican voting base) fall for this crap hook, line and sinker.
Except it won't be his tax dollars. It won't be any of the wealthy's tax dollars since they and their companies effectively pay zero percent in tax.
They fall for it bc they are dumb and brainwashed.
90% of the time, if you work hard enough, you still won't get compensated enough to make a living wage.
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Bro this exactly. I’m not a hard worker, don’t claim to be, don’t want to be. I want to make enough to pursue my small passions.
Wasn’t he the loser doing those cameos for $1500 where he would speak good about ANY business to milk his reputation?
1500 for people 8900 for businesses. What business has the overhead to just drop almost 10 k on a fucking O'Leary cameo?
Eat your pheasant, drink your wine, your days are numbered bourgeois swine.
Fuck this bloated toad of a man!
The silence after his first sentence haha
Her reaction was priceless. It was like she was stunned at how insane the words were coming out of his mouth.
This guy has some serious brain damage wtf
I would go to jail so fucking fast if I saw this cow in the streets.
He is never in the streets, bruh. Limos, choppers, and jets.
Why are you calling Amanda a cow? She seems like she's in pretty good shape to me. 😉
System is simply working as intended.
Fuck the 1%
Really think about that stat for a second. 85 people have more wealth than 3.5 billion people combined. Eighty five. Did you know people actually have a really difficult time comprehending how big a billion is? Like they can't even understand the number that well. They know the number, they know how many zeros it is, but it's so large, it's hard to realistically comprehend. It's like light-years and comprehending the vastness of deep space.
Volume of an M&M is about 0.60 to 0.65 cubic centimeter per
The fact that it’s hashtag is cbclolx just shows how much of a farce it is.
What the actual fuck.
What did Henry Ford say? I’m outta the loop
" I'm going to tell you what you should have said later" nah bitch do it live I wanna see it. Her look was priceless though, well maybe worth .02% of the wealth of the top 1%
Well if she'd come out and yelled, "You should have just responded, 'I'm a dumbass with no soul!' and saved me 2 minutes of idiocy," the network would have fired her, and then she'd be a part of that statistic.
No she should of stood up and straight b at his ass on national tv and then we see how wonderful he is ..we could post her bail and tie it up in court ...
Why are you calling her a bitch? Keep the misogyny to yourself please
I hate it when people ignore the question-answer format of an interview and interrupt each other all the time. This way nothing is said.
Weird, almost like that's on purpose sometimes.
This poor news anchor has no idea that she’s talking to a sociopathic aristocrat who is hell-bent on justifying the exploitation of labourers for the benefit of the 1% no matter how illogical and immoral his argument makes him sound.
These people are criminals agianst the human species and should be treated as such.
If you work real hard you could be rich some day, like shut the fuck up dude. You know how many people I watch work really fucking hard and will never be even close to rich. Take away his privileges and throw him in a coal mine and tell him if he works hard enough he might get his old life back.
I always thought "eat the rich" was metaphorical, but I literally want to watch this destructive asshole get eaten by wolves.
Man's gone downhill from Shark Tank
He was unnecessarily douchey on the show as well.
Consider yourself lucky you haven't happened across his YouTube pieces. He's an insufferable piece of filth on humanity.
I've seen like 4 episodes of that show, and this seems pretty on-brand for him. Are there segments where he isn't a giant flaming fuck hole?
I mean the premise of shark tank is im gonna aquire starting off businesses for a cheap as possible so I can harvest them for money so wouldn't his presence on shark tank make him trash as is?
Was he ever uphill on Shark Tank? He always came off like an insufferable asshole who doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself
That's so ridiculous. He is either a complete a**hole, or the most deluded person i have ever seen. Or both
Both. Definitely both.
He's a lying con man who doesn't give a fuck
Redistribution of wealth will NEVER happen again? Not too long ago in human history we were chopping the heads off the wealthy, so yea, I think the tide can turn pretty quick.
Is that my music I hear?
Shark Tank used to be such a fun show to watch. Then I grew up and realized these “sharks” are just aholes.
F*ck this idiot. I still think he threw his wife under the bus re: their boating accident that killed two people.
His wife definitely wasn't driving that boat.
If you want to win the war eat the rich to feed the poor.
You know they are going to taste like shit.
This is the brain washing we have all endured. “Pull up your boot straps and be motivated while I don’t pay any taxes and you’re too busy trying to survive, to vote to change the tax inequality”
dude has always been a complete piece of shit
January 22, 2014 seems to be when the media started reporting on this interview with the headline, "Seriously?"
Eat my whole ass you unwanted donkey of a tv show host.
Hey some people would pay good money for that, may as well get paid.
" I don't have socks" 😂😂
Sounds like "let them eat cake" to me, I suggest a similar soloution.
I don't want to be the top 1%. I just want to be paid fairly and have a little money leftover after bills are paid.
Oh my god, shut the fuck up.
I hate this guy
I remember the one dude that said a hungry dog is an obedient dog in regards to welfare.
John Taffer from Bar Rescue. Name and shame.
I swear to god if I ever met one of these ultra wealthy on the street I may attack them
Cashole
The correlation between 'hard work' and wealth is not nearly as strong as wealthy people like to make it seem
Fuck this guy I hope he gets cancee
“If you work hard, you might be stinking rich one day”…. What a degenerate. I’ve been working my ass off since I was a teen. Fuck this dude for real.
clearly you aren't working hard enough /s
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We need to take a lesson from capitalists and make them work menial jobs for almost no pay, in horrible conditions, and a quota meant for someone doing dangerous amounts of meth, 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, ten minute breaks, and that means scan to scan people.*you have to make the word people sound like an insult here mandatory*
We have bandsaws and chainsaws these days.
Absolutely clueless. I assume he started out without a pot to piss in /s
Jesus. She is pretty badass. I’m more impressed by her standing her ground than him being a fucking idiot. Him being an idiot is almost expected. Her telling him to fuck off politely is refreshing.
I'd be more impressed if she didn't try to crush a story that would financially impact a colleague of hers. We all have our skeletons though
Where can I download this? I have so many people I want to show this to.
What's the worst possibly take I can have on this? -K. O'Leary.
🤣 this dude is fr. At least act like you have some empathy ffs.
Kevin: 3.5 billion in poverty is motivating.
Wow get censored if you typ gilloteen
Rich people taste like bigmacs if you use enough 1000 island dressing.
It’s time
This is the kind of complete fucking idiocy we're up against.
Holy shit this mans out of touch 😳😵
To be this out of touch with reality. Holy shit! She should've just turned to the camera and said, "And this is why we should eat the rich!"
“If you work hard you might be stinking rich one day”. That’s his argument. It’s not even the discontented billionaire syndrome thing, because it directly acknowledges that most people - even amongst those who try - will never achieve it. It’s just the dehumanising veneration of greed for the sake of continuing to play pretend, to keep up appearances.
Capitalist propaganda spewing clown
O’Leary is scum
Wow I used to actually like Shark Tank too. So much for that shit.
Eat the rich? I wouldn't let my dog eat something that vile.
He is such a cunt for a Canadian
What an absolute piece of shit
Melt this motherfucker down and use him as fuel. Not even joking in the slightest.
what the fuck! im going to start killing!
Ultrawealthy people don't get rich by working hard, if it's not already obvious the poorest people work the hardest out of all of us while the richest sit on their asses & let their wealth do all the heavy lifting...the meritocracy is a myth. If everyone got what they deserved, based entirely off of how much work you put in, the script would be entirely flipped
He’s is garbage and the perfect example of what is horrible wrong with this world
Big yikes. Either Kevin is exorbitantly stupid and lucky to have disgusting wealth, or he is playing the evil side and trying to convince the peasants to work harder so he can pay them less, while lying to them that they will be rich like he is today. No one wakes up and decides to work harder and becomes rich, that's literally never happened in all of history. You are either born with it or inherent wealth, you get extremely lucky, or you found a way to scam and screw others to make your own wealth. There is no other way, and working harder is not how you make money.
How the actual fuck nobody’s shot this dude is beyond me
Lol what an absolute cocksucker
I have ZERO problem with overly successful people. I don’t cry knowing someone out there is running in first place at the olympics while I struggle to get a passable time for a fitness test.
Billionaires can only become Billionaires by exploiting. You cannot, by yourself, generate that much wealth. There is by definition no work one person can do across sufficient number of customers to generate that much wealth.
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We'd appreciate it if you didn't use ableist slurs.