Some are begrudging his success. Serious class envy. He earned it...ain’t capitalism grand?
“Some are begrudging his success. Serious class envy. He earned it...ain’t capitalism grand?”
Totally agree! What is sad is that here on FR I had to get to post 10, before I saw your sensible post.
Americans used to look up to millionaires as people who had “made it”. As more and more people realize that they’ve lost their jobs so certain millionaires can become billionaires, the relationship has soured. Gates has destroyed the tech field for many Americans invested time and money to work in the field, and then turns around (after threatening to send jobs overseas if he can’t import more Asian coolies) and complains that American students don’t go into tech anymore.
Why shouldn’t people find that insulting to say the least? I don’t see general resentment against rich people on FR; I see anger towards certain individuals who’ve been exposed as unelected overlords who play a large role in our economic future.
> Some are begrudging his success. Serious class envy. He earned it...ain’t capitalism grand?
It’s what he did AFTER he got it that we don’t care for...
Some are begrudging his success
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I don’t begrudge him his success. It’s just that I resent his luxurious indulgences after comments that he and his father have made about how the rest of us should give more to the poor of the world. And I suspect that the others who are snarking are thinking the same as I.
I agree. If there are things to criticize the guy over, go ahead. This class envy thing is so 1917 Russia.
No thanks.
Mr. Gates’s success in the free market shouldn’t be begrudged, I agree. It makes one sound like a whiny 99 percent occupier type.
What I very much dislike about Mr. Gates however is his attempt to radically change what American children are taught in school by his promotion of the common core curriculum and the promotion of communist ideologies funded by the Steve and Melinda Gates foundation. Money is not evil, neither is having it. It is what you do with it that makes the difference.
Here in South Dakota we have Denny Sanford a man who made his billions with Premier Bank. He has built a Children’s Hospital, Breast Cancer Research Center a Catholic Retreat and helped to fund a restoration of a truly stunning cathedral. Mr. Gates intends to force a global redistribution of resources where people are government slaves. Mr. Sanford helps care for the sick and the spiritual needs of the community.
Thanks, I was wondering if I had somehow clicked on Pravda.com by mistake.