Every millionaire and billionaire reading this column (welcome! As a true democrat I welcome readers from everywhere) - please read that and repeat it one hundred times!
Next.
"Most people who are poor are not lazy. Most of them spend much of their lives doing awful, very badly-paid jobs that need doing".
Every millionaire and billionaire reading this column please read that and repeat it one hundred times.
Next.
"Every business is not successful. Only 6% of businesses are profitable while 60% of businesses fail outright leaving substantial amounts of unpayable debt behind them - so starting your own business is absolutely not the way out of poverty for most people".
Every millionaire and billionaire reading this column please read that and repeat it one hundred times.
Next.
"People who have inherited large amounts of wealth need to understand most people do not inherit huge sums and do not have it easy from day one of their lives".
Every millionaire and billionaire (who has inherited a fortune) reading this column please read that and repeat it one hundred times.
Next.
"Many people do not want to take out debt or live by speculation. They simply want find a decent-paying job which will offer them a decent, debt-free and not extravagant lifestyle".
Every millionaire and billionaire reading this column please read that and repeat it one hundred times.
Next.
"A large number of people people hate selling and will not gamble - whether on sports results or stocks and shares. So if people are to avoid the poverty trap, there has to be a way for people who fit that category to make a reasonable living somehow - and people who have worked hard to earn qualifications and gain experience should be given the chance to use them".
Every millionaire and billionaire reading this column please read that and repeat it one hundred times.
Next.
"The fact that you are past 50 does not mean that you are brain dead!".
Every millionaire and billionaire and potential employer reading this column please read that and repeat it one hundred times.
Next.
I was going to dedicate this article to Gina Rinehart, the world's richest woman and Australian mining tycoon and owner of an inherited fortune, but after reading a column by Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun (isn't the the Internet wonderful, you can pick up relevant articles in the Australian media!) stating that she was misquoted, or at least words were taken out of context, I will offer this piece for her and others to contemplate as a response.
Actual words if you have not read them:
"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more yourselves, less drinking and social time and more work time".
Apart from the obvious flaws in the logic (like there are far more unemployed than jobs available - though that may not be the case in Australia, I do not know for certain what is happening there), it makes a load of phoney assumptions. And would you think that working four extra hours a day as a McLackey or as a Burger Klod would improve things at all?
I am not, however, jealous!
I do not want millions or billions!
If someone offers me a job in line with my talents in IT at 35,000 to 45,000 Euro per annum tomorrow (and every day in line with national working codes - I will also happily work on Christmas Day! - for at least the next five years), they can have me - tomorrow. I enjoy working, I hate sitting round (which I don't do anyway). And while I can quote a few people who are unemployed, none of them just sit around drinking beer and socialising. But try persuading the idiot mega-rich that that is the case!
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