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It made me crazy when Bloomberg said he made all that money because he worked hard. You know who works hard? Hotel cleaning staff! Garbage truck drivers! Etc.
Yep, yep, yep. I know that a lot of people who work harder than me earn a lot less money. Working hard doesn't hurt, but it's neither a sure road to riches, nor the most common one. And I hate the whole concept of turning economic hardship into a moral failing.
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It made me crazy when Bloomberg said he made all that money because he worked hard.
There is plenty about him that is crazy making, but the fact that his business made billions doesn't really bother me. Granted I have never really done physically hard work on a daily basis, but running a business is still hard work in my definition.
I really wish that Bloomberg had fallen in love with one of the candidates and tossed in a few hundred million supporting them. He did a good job supporting candidates in the midterms. I do believe that his fear is Bernie get the nomination and Trump wins, and he is desperate to stop that from happening. But his running may be turning his fears into reality.
Warren did such an awesome job with her jabs at him.
Not Spring! (Janet voice)
Spring is mid-March at the earliest. you are crazy.
My lawn is still covered in snow, so definitely not Spring. Spring starts on opening day of baseball as far as I'm concerned.
OMG the Stone sentencing hearing:
"In many ways, the process has already been the punishment" for Stone, Ginsberg claims.
I expect Tr*mp will pardon him by the end of next week.
The Judge sounds mighty annoyed, but I expect the pardon to follow whatever sentence so she may as well make it a good one.
Granted I have never really done physically hard work on a daily basis, but running a business is still hard work in my definition.
I think what I mean to say is that "hard work" isn't how you get to be a billionaire. You have to work hard, sure, but it's as much about luck and skill and positioning and all of this other stuff, not just how "hard" you're working.
I mean, Bloomberg specifically started selling computerized data to financial companies right as computers were becoming ubiquitous, so it was a good idea at the right time that worked out.
Nathan was just on The View and my boyfriend is still super adorable.
I think what I mean to say is that "hard work" isn't how you get to be a billionaire. You have to work hard, sure, but it's as much about luck and skill and positioning and all of this other stuff, not just how "hard" you're working.
And after a certain point (a few million? a few ten millions? I have no idea), it's just money turning itself into more money over and over and over again. You can't make more billions faster by working harder, and you can't make ANY number of billions without starting out very rich.