3.5 billion people living in poverty is fantastic news

Source. Makes sense. Or does it? You decide!

A person of wealth and prestige implying the world is perfect and fair. No surprises here.

He's doing a great job at making sure those crappy poor people continue to work hard by inspiring them with his riches.

Heh

Population of all of Africa, population of India, most of the population of China. Sounds about right to me.

the woman's look of "are you f-cking retarded??" when he said that was the perfect reaction.

The guy is a dumbass, but the writer of this article isn't much better

You guys obviously don't get it because you're poor.

We didn't just win the lottery. :-(

It's quite common for megarich people to feed their own ego by drawing on themselves as inspirations to others, and this is what happens when you combine that attitude with an immense ignorance of what poverty is like for most humans.

@comp_atkins said:

the woman's look of "are you f-cking retarded??" when he said that was the perfect reaction.

I lol'd when I saw that too. I guess you just have to be good in one area to make money since this guy is a complete turd otherwise.

what a pos

^GazaAli, please repost.^

While there are benefits to having enough personal self-esteem for a goal such as what Kevin O'Leary believes the impoverished are capable of having for themselves, life has many struggles which can make such dreams impossible to obtain. It pains me to say this, but he is being naive at best and disingenuous at worst.

I remember that guy from Shark Tank. What a blow hard. In all honesty those 3.5 billion people are probably living in overpopulated poor areas of east/south east asia, which in decades past have been far worse.

But the notion that its AWESOME that less than 100 people have more than half the global population? Mocking him doesn't even begin to scratch the surface at how delusional he sounds.

Well that's the kind of CBC apishness we Canadian taxpayers fund. You're welcome.

Like the NBA, poverty is Faaaaaantastic.

Strange thing they would put considering CBC is rather left-wing.