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Anyone can be a billionaire if they just try hard enough.

Anyone can be a billionaire if they just try hard enough?

by digby
I find it hard to believe these people actually believe what they’re saying:

After Oxfam found that the world’s 85 richest people had a as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people, [Shark Tank host] Kevin O’Leary had applauded the report as “fantastic news.”

“This is a great thing because it inspires everybody, and gets them the motivation to look up to the 1 per cent and say, I want to become one of those people. I’m going to fight hard and get up to the top,” he said on a Canadian news program.

Because anyone can see that if you just “fight hard” you too could beat the odds and become one of the 85 out of 3.5 billion to get to the top. If they can do it anybody can! Like the Waltons and L’Oreal heirs, for instance, all of whom inherited their wealth and then let their money do the earning.

It’s the American Dream:

Be sure to click over to the full story to see Tucker Carlson weigh in. It’s just precious.

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