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UNDERCOVER BOSS.
Wed Feb 12, 2014 at 05:33 PM PST.
Every Episode of Undercover Boss Disproves Myth of 1% Worker Supremacy
This week in defending the "Kristallnatch" remarks of investment banker Tom Perkins, billionaire Sam Zell argued that the 1% are simply more deserving because "They Just Work Harder."
The billionaire chairman of Equity Group Investments backed up fellow rich guy Tom Perkins, who set off a firestorm when he recently compared the "progressive war on the 1 percent" to Nazi anti-Semitism in a letter to the Wall Street Journal. (He later apologized for using the word "Kristallnacht" but defended the overall "message."
"I guess my feeling is that hes right," Zell said when asked by Bloomberg's Betty Liu how he felt about Perkins' stance. "The 1 percent are being pummeled because its politically convenient to do so."
Zell then said the problem is that all non-rich are just jealous that they don't have the same work ethic that the country's wealthiest do.
"The problem is that the world and this country should not talk about envy of the 1 percent. It should talk about emulating the 1 percent," he said. "The 1 percent work harder. The 1 percent are much bigger factors in all forms of our society."
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socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Bull shit!
2theleft
(1,136 posts)malokvale77
(4,879 posts)hay rick
(7,656 posts)Except I wasn't sure if it was one word or two.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)sweat shops or
diamond mines.
The Magistrate
(95,264 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)nm
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,634 posts)exploiting others.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)They work sooooo hard.
But I have to agree that Undercover Boss does show just how hard the ordinary workers work, and how little they are appreciated. In fact, I can't watch that show. I get so disgusted with the idiot bosses who have no clue what is going on in their businesses, and the only way that they will listen to the workers about problems is when they are faced with them. Before that, they probably think that the workers are just useless idiots. The delusions that they have before "working" make me so pissed off.
hunter
(38,346 posts)Fortunately I don't commonly encounter anyone who would say such a thing.
yewberry
(6,530 posts)NoGOPZone
(2,971 posts)Always have time to come up with the most asinine statements?
hatrack
(59,602 posts)Paris
Hilton
QC
(26,371 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,051 posts)Inherited Wealth.