Offensive Jerk or Just Misunderstood?

[Masked Bandit]

Saw this on Facebook today, had a little discussion in the office. Just wondering what people think of this.

[woodywoodford]

I can't watch it at work right now, but I freakin love Kevin O'leary. Interested to see what I think after checking it out after though...

[CanmoreOrLess]

O'Leary is the yang to her yin. It makes for a good tv couple. Who is going to watch a couple of nodding heads? Google around for O'Leary and how he made his cash, he is not as rich as some believe, he does have money though and is bright no doubt. It is easy to play his character, it does get very predictable. I doubt he is as cold as he makes himself out to be, these types seldom are what they appear. We've all seen him tear up on DD and Shark Tank. O'Leary is entertaining and this seems to be the point. Like Don Cherry, who O'Leary had a working relationship with, they are entertaining and over the top. For the record, I like them both.

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[ZenOps]

Neither, there is no misunderstanding. He is a realist.

Now Schiff, he has billionaire balls. He actually went out into the streets to talk to the Occupy protestors.

[TYMSMNY]

Bang on! Zenops.

[revelations]

Nothing wrong with being stupid rich if youre self-made.

Getting rich by mis-allocating public money, setting up a fake religous group, running a "public" company in Quebec .... etc. is where I have a problem.

[lilmira]

Why should anyone be ashamed of being better than the rest? That's a stupid question. However you can question which path they take to get to the top.

[Masked Bandit]

Originally posted by revelations
Nothing wrong with being stupid rich if youre self-made.

Getting rich by mis-allocating public money, setting up a fake religous group, running a "public" company in Quebec .... etc. is where I have a problem.

Perhaps I missed the memo, but who are you actually referring too?

[clem24]

Hahaha occupy ... Is that still going on anywhere?

[Sentry]

Originally posted by CanmoreOrLess
[B]O'Leary is the yang to her yin. It makes for a good tv couple. Who is going to watch a couple of nodding heads?

[revelations]

Originally posted by Masked Bandit


Perhaps I missed the memo, but who are you actually referring too?

Nobody specifically .... I know a few self-made millionaires and they did it with their own skill and good business sense.

[Modelexis]

The philosophy that offends the most people tends to be the most logical. There is far more sickness than health in our society and so if people aren't offended when you have something to say about society you have to really question whether you've got something wrong along the way.

It's like anti-theism, if you're not offending a large portion of religious sects you've gone terribly wrong in your philosophy.

Same goes for parenting, state education, economics, morality etc.

I love when people are offended by the philosophy that I come to accept as true, it means that I'm on the right track.

If people are offended that just means that there is a chance to win the debate and change society. If there is no opposition that means society already has the most logical philosophy and remains sick - that is a hopeless situation.

[Graham_A_M]

I understand where Kevin is coming from. He had a very very regular middle class upbringing, but through his business savvy-ness and good decisions (etc etc) look where he is today. He was one of those 3.5 billion scrubs, now one of Canada's more wealthy.

So I can understand his logic, that if he can do it, anybody can.... and they truly can if they want it bad enough, but that brings in a lot of clout with ethical VS. partially unethical ways of making money in the manner of obtaining the almighty dollar, and thats where things can get quite cloudy, very fast.

[frizzlefry]

I agree with him. He is pretty much self-made. His funds don't perform very well though and he is a bit over-inflated on himself. As one article I read said "O'Leary's money makes a lot of money in a lot of places but his funds aren't one of them". His original deal selling his software to Mattel is regarded as one of the worst business deals for investors. He flooded the market with a shoddy product (ie at the time it was the only software that was sold in 7-11 by being bundled with cheap books) that temporarily inflated his stock value due to the sudden sales increase. He sold his company then and after that Mattel and their investors lost a shitload once everyone caught on that the product sucked. But none of this was illegal, he simply took advantage of people not doing due diligence before buying his company. Nowadays that deal would not have happened. People are far more wise but that the time the tech bubble was inflating and everyone wanted on-board. But hey, good on him for capitalizing.

Anyways, I agree with him and if people think its bad now they should look back to the time when an even smaller percent owned almost everything. And the poor were called peasants.

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[LollerBrader]

Originally posted by Masked Bandit
Saw this on Facebook today, had a little discussion in the office. Just wondering what people think of this.

O'Leary believes the myth that access to opportunity is equitably distributed globally.

It's not.

Being an educated white male in Canada puts one in the pole position of the global rat race.

[Thomas Gabriel]

Look at all the butthurt faggots commenting on youtube. As a kid I always looked up to rich people, and even though I probably will never be one of them, the act of trying has put me far ahead of these youtube losers.

[frizzlefry]

Originally posted by LollerBrader


O'Leary believes the myth that access to opportunity is equitably distributed globally.

It's not.

Being an educated white male in Canada puts one in the pole position of the global rat race.

Agree...but...this is not a blessing handed out at random or just because you are white. Previous generations worked hard/smart and got their kids educated. And their offspring get a leg up in life. That's why they worked hard. I see a lot of immigrants who worked their asses off as janitors and got their kids educated and they became 6 figure engineers. Is that unfair too?

[Nitro5]

I forget the exact amount, but if you make around $34,000 a year you are in the 1% of top wage earners.

[DeleriousZ]

Originally posted by LollerBrader


O'Leary believes the myth that access to opportunity is equitably distributed globally.

It's not.

Being an educated white male in Canada puts one in the pole position of the global rat race.

This. Pretty sure it's a bit more difficult for a muslim woman living in Iraq to 'work hard' and become a self made millionaire...