I received a mail this morning which discussed the now predictable market fundamentalist reaction to Oxfam's annual wealth report. This was said by my correspondent:
This clip is not from this year, but it is my all-time favourite. A Canadian critic of the report, Kevin O'Leary, saying that it is great news that 3.5 billion are in poverty as they are incentivised to work hard and join the 1%. The news anchor is appalled and says ‘ok they should pull up their socks. Oh wait a minute they are so poor they don't have socks'.
There's not a lot can be added to that, but the comments make clear the true agenda of most who criticise Oxfam's work.
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Kevin O’Leary the would-be Canadian Donald Trump who allegedly hasn’t paid his election expenses . Here’s another example of his motormouth :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhHPIuTQ5k
I was going to write something but words fail me.
DId anyone seek that berk Portaloo on BBC’s This Week? Apparently the poor are getting richer, and they have shoes! It was very much his ‘let them eat cake’ moment.
Are you referring to Portillo?
I am missing something, I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX_iVNLMNUo
Crass
Why am I not surprised to witness something like this?
That guy has this bombastic big, loud, talk-over-the-top-of-you technique that appeals to a certain very specific type of FoxNews idiot.
It makes a lot of other people just want to smack him across the chops with wooden plank and say: now, talk over the top of that.
It’s amazing that these characters always proclaim that the poor’s poverty as being the result of their indolent, slothful, work-shy, shiftless, attitude and they just need to pull up their socks and work harder.
Amazingly stupid for anyone with a sense of proportion.
If wealth increased in proportion to how hard you worked then the billionaires would be moving at the speed of light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HAjQqwQqJ8
This guy is persuasive? he was on the Portillo link (Portillo symbolises the worst features of the aristocracy)..Wiki describes this Yaron Brook as a “Objectivist”..never come across that before..
Why is a UK university inviting this crackpot to deliver his bitter invective to these students? This wasn’t a ‘talk’, it’s him berating an audience for not seeing the world as he does.
That’s ok as a one off
It’s not the way to teach