With all due respect you just intimated that everyone that is poor is stupid, which is certainly a step down from lazy. Not only that but I’ve known plenty of highly compensated executives that are as dumb as stumps.
Alibaba is the product of the China International Electronic Commerce Center. All they did was to give it a legitimate "corporate" front, Alibaba.
"From 1998 to 1999, Ma headed an information technology company established by the China International Electronic Commerce Center, a department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. "
It is hard to believe that any FReeper would think China is actually a capitalist country when most of its large corporations and stuff are government-owned. This is just a modern version of Russia exporting government Vodka for "hard currency" to buy grain.
It is nothing a conservative should support.
If you would please read it again, I’m sure you’ll see that I did not say or imply that “everyone” that is poor is “stupid”.
I’m simply saying not everyone is capable of being a software developer.
Note that this does not mean they’re “stupid”. They may have a PhD in medicine, but still not have the capability to write a computer program. And, of course, there are programmers that are very good at programming, but do not have the aptitude to be a successful surgeon, lawyer, etc.
I’ve also personally known people - strange as this may seem - only graduated 8th grade, and they did not have much interest in school, and would hardly consider themselves highly intelligent. But I’ve seen at least one have their own business for many years with a very reasonable amount of success, and others have steady jobs their whole lives and be fairly well financially secure. None of them could do much of anything on a computer, and none are/were multi-millionaires. My point was that there is nothing wrong with them not becoming multi-millionaires - and they had FAR more ambition, working LONG days at “real” jobs where they had to actually think and work, than MANY folks I see running around today.
Most of us, undoubtedly, have also seen folks that were actually lazy and did not make good use of the capabilities they had and thus did not do well financially - although some of these folks actually do well financially, as in, the case of the person who, as they say, falls ass-backwards into money.
Sometimes very intelligent, hard-working people fall prey to temptations, or make mistakes indicative of human frailty - they aren’t lazy or stupid, just human. Sometimes these mistakes can take decades to recover from; sometimes the person never recovers.
I was simply trying to point out what should be obvious, that to simply paint with a broad brush and label everyone that is not a millionaire as lazy is a gross oversimplification and flat out wrong.
The new world order financial elites of society love to put this sort of lie into the public’s mind so a) it will motivate the intelligent, ambitious folks to unwittingly work hard for new world order as its “minions” (just drop by linkedin and you’ll find them by the thousand) and b) so those who are hard-working but not rich will not bother looking at the corruption and criminality of the elites thus not understand how the various programs and criminal agendas of the elites have them living as unwitting economic slaves.