File under "you just can't make this stuff up."
In less than a week, we get 3 billionaires in seeming self-parodies featuring themselves as both gloating celebrants of poverty and inequality and innocent victims of horrible billionaire oppression.
First, we're treated to Kevin O'Leary, host of some inane trash TV show called Shark Tank, saying that 3.5 billion people living in poverty is "fantastic news" because it gives them all inspiration to be just like those 85 billionaires who now have the same amount of wealth as the bottom half of the global population.
Amanda Lang:
The wealth, this is according to Oxfam, of the world’s 85 richest people is equal to the 3.5 billion poorest people.Kevin O'Leary:
It’s fantastic. And this is a great thing because it inspires everybody, gets them motivation to look up to the 1% and say, “I want to become one of those people, I’m going to fight hard to get up to the top.” This is fantastic news, and of course I applaud it. What can be wrong with this?