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  • earlier this week we talk to you about new Oxfam report but had some statistics

  • about global inequality the biggest one being that the richest

  • eighty-five people in the world have as much wealth as the bottom 3.5

  • billion now that is I think at best an

  • ominous figure not everybody agrees with that though let's go to kevin O'Leary he

  • was on that Canadian television and he thinks it's a great thing

  • because according to Oxfam on the world 85 richest people

  • if equal to the three and a half billion poorest

  • people it's fantastic and this is a great thing because inspired

  • everybody gets the motivation to look up to the one percent and say I want to

  • become one of those people I'm gonna fight hard to get up to the top

  • this is fantastic news and of course I applaud it what I'm doing wrong with

  • this

  • really yes really somebody living on I celebrate I had a dollar today in africa

  • is

  • getting up in the morning think I'm gonna be bill gay that's the motivation

  • everybody in the Miata

  • a rotation I just need a pilot Mike I am NOT don't have thought like don't tell

  • me that you want to redistribute wealth again that's never going to happen all I

  • know what you take a symbol that like this which is neither good nor bad it's

  • just a fact that the seller charges that I'm very excited about nine wonderful to

  • see it happen

  • I tell kids every day if you know what's good and what's wrong with this at a

  • cocktail party or not many what's wrong with this right now possible with God

  • you and work hard you might be stinking rich Obama people in extreme

  • abject poverty that's how you get 3901 I and we're just talking that really

  • matters grateful

  • no ok write a letter what you should do this

  • I love it like when you say in 85 rich people 3.5 billion

  • he doesn't even here the poor like it doesn't even register now we're talking

  • about the bridge right

  • you're also talking about the poor so she had a great line about their oh wait

  • I don't have Sykes

  • in appetite but you have to go all the way to Africa so in the example I was

  • there was low in West Virginia cuz I was there about a dozen years ago and its

  • it's a pretty poor town if you've never been there right

  • and I like it because it removes all the racial aspects with the white town

  • in everybody in town this poor according to kevin O'Leary

  • golly gee they just got a little bit me they didn't know their poll bombs in

  • that town yeah

  • on everyone everyone I would like if they were all motivated they would all

  • be incredibly rich in Logan West Virginia

  • as it turns out what are we unbelievable question is all the bums the world was I

  • double dare

  • yeah that that's not how it works is because they didn't have very good

  • opportunity in the first place now look

  • it doesn't mean dead working hard is it to get you somewhere yes oh ok or you

  • are gored and I think it'd

  • you can make all the difference in the world but those two things

  • are not mutually exclusive the you might that it's harder for you logo estrogen

  • is harder for you in the Bronx certainly harder for you in sub-saharan Africa

  • rate it does we should give up short course you should work hard

  • but then the say well those eighty five guys made it so then

  • I guess you are just as good as of course you don't have as good a chance

  • by the way they were among those eighty five guys is six Walmart airs

  • didn't even do anything their dad

  • okay bless his heart i mean a lot of people will bless his heart

  • because he lot a questionable things had to get them there

  • well sam walton but are given to all night but the chairs the six airs

  • the Walmart old wooden reportedly walked two houses for any more than just

  • everyone the gene pool lottery

  • that's all the Koch brothers who actually did increase our world

  • also inherited four hundred million dollars yeah well

  • that's not pull your socks up that's why you're making your dad's baby down up

  • yeah and and I totally agree and we say how it it harder to achieve

  • and that makes and cyclic way we don't need it harder as in like you pick up

  • the governing you resist the man it's really hard to resist this company like

  • its hard like there's no computers in my village nobody has shoes in my village

  • that is a really hard and we would not have a problem with the $85 million

  • people it was actually about

  • you know I economic determinism in these people being motivated and stuff like

  • that but that's not how it happened

  • they get there they get to the top of the economic matinee

  • as you I think use this term earlier and the burn the bridge behind them and they

  • read the system the rubric the economic system

  • and then read the political system to give you the small chance possible to

  • achieve

  • what they achieved and that so he is in can I do with a reporter was but i wanna

  • see more per because I love the fact that she called him on his bullshit

  • yes that's a pep rally mandalay and I like it a lot

  • a logo or see on this by no one knows that it's possible better than

  • I do my family does red my father who gropers a

  • very poor farmer in southeastern Turkey in a tiny little Pow

  • right and how to get to where he is now he did two things

  • but you say that guys like Kevin only rule we tell you about 10 but what about

  • was that he worked his ass off right

  • they got up at four in the morning to go literally separate the wheat from the

  • chaff

  • which turns out to be a real pain in the ass but okay

  • well and and picking olives grapes et cetera et cetera

  • any study really hard now to gregg education and then wound up

  • no sorry his own business and then another business and one upcoming

  • American living the American dream a given

  • his kids all doctor in the world for which I'm greatly thankful

  • right okay but the other part of it is the party don't talk about

  • that where he scored in the top 15 percent in the exam

  • in Turkey you get a free education at the best school

  • okay now that's opportunity that he didn't have that opportunity

  • by the way government created opportunity okay the government says

  • I'm gonna give you this education for free if you have that opportunity right

  • now my ass is big in all those in southeastern Turkey

  • okay so you need bowls and if the kevin O'Leary the world said hey you know

  • if it was fair and those eighty five guys are in it and you know there's

  • debates about that as john pointed out as to how much they really earned it

  • whether they were heirs is like I said or they rate this system is John says

  • and I'm sure among the 85 their people would totally did earlier right n

  • their fair square et cetera but if we all had that option

  • at least an opportunity to shop for that they would be different question if

  • kevin O'Leary said

  • hey you know what the most important thing is I wanna make sure 3.5 million

  • people

  • at the same chance that those 85 dead right then that's a conversation worth

  • having.

  • but the way he sees it as I knew I couldn't live there also

  • and if you don't get to where they did your Paul yeah

earlier this week we talk to you about new Oxfam report but had some statistics

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