31 Aug 2012

Gina Rinehart is a horrible person, again.

What I found interesting about this article was Gina’s argument that she and other billionaires are “doing more than anyone to help the poor by investing their money and creating jobs.”

This is the exact argument I watched Jay Shidler, founder of a Hawai’ian real estate investment group and namesake of the business school at the University of Hawai’i, make during a discussion of the ethics of capitalism.

But he said it while waving around an Apple iPhone and talking about all the jobs that have been created in China.

The self delusion of the staggeringly rich continues to blow my mind.


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  1. startmakingsense said: How dare she suggest that hard work can lead to more money. How dare she agree with many economists whose studies suggest that lower minimum wages and taxes lead to a growth in employment and investment respectively? How dare she empoly some of the best paid workers in…
  2. ninefruits said: Capitalism may have some unethical outcomes. Yet it is far more ethical than any other “system” (I don’t like it being called “system” for reasons to long for this box) - bleedingheartlibertaria…
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