Billionaires are hard workers like middle managers are hard workers. They certainly do things during the day, and they earn a lot more money than the actual workers. But it has nothing to do with the value of their labour, and everything to do with their position.
Anyway, preaching to the choir, I know.
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Boomers: I’m so glad I’m retired and don’t have to work anymore! 😁
Also boomers: No one wants to work anymore! 😠
Billionaires are that guy that breaks an egg in his elbow and thinks he’s built different because of that.
I’m not sure there’s a person who really believes both of these. I think people who believe premise one actually believe this to be a generally true statement about people (or a generally true statement about some racial subset of people) rather than a statement about all people. This dovetails nicely with their love of billionaires due to them being “hard workers” because it shows the billionaire is somewhat unique and better than most people in that regard.
Yeah the thought process goes:
- If you work hard, you’ll succeed.
- Billionaires must have worked hard to become billionaires.
- Poor people must be lazy because if they worked hard they wouldn’t be poor.
- Give a hard worker a billion dollars and they’ll keep working, because they’re a hard worker.
- Give a lazy person basic needs and why would they work again? They’re lazy.
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I mean, it makes some sense. I suppose people who access vast wealth through inheritance or marriage might not be very motivated, but if someone worked to become a billionaire, this means that long before that point he had the option to retire in absolute luxury and never work again, but he chose to keep working. Even when he had more money than he could ever possibly spend, he kept working. I think it’s hard to have more dedication to one’s work than that.
At a certain point it’s not really working, so much as moving capital around and watching it constantly grow, because of its extractive properties. More of an obsession, like constantly winning at gambling, just one jackpot after another, and still you can’t tear yourself away from the table.
Nonsense. Zero people claim billionaires are hard workers. That’s not a talking point on any part of the political spectrum.
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