{"id":53750,"date":"2020-06-19T07:27:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T12:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53750"},"modified":"2020-06-19T07:27:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T12:27:56","slug":"lee-camp-the-secret-reason-billionaires-love-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53750","title":{"rendered":"LEE CAMP: The Secret Reason Billionaires Love a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2020\/06\/18\/lee-camp-the-secret-reason-billionaires-love-a-pandemic\/\">LEE CAMP: The Secret Reason Billionaires Love a Pandemic<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You see, there has been a class war going on for years \u2013 perpetrated by the rich (who aren\u2019t smarter or better) against everyone else.<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/The_Wealth_of_the_Nation_Seymour_Fogel-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>W<\/strong>e live in a time when there are more billionaires walking around than ever before. (They don\u2019t actually walk. They have someone do that for them.) And one can\u2019t deny billionaires are billionaires because they\u2019ve worked harder than anyone else\u2014roughly 300 times harder than an average worker. They are smarter, cleverer, more intuitive and show more initiative than anyone else, too. That\u2019s why they\u2019re billionaires and we\u2019re not. That\u2019s why they will always be billionaires and we will never be. That\u2019s why we can all see ourselves in the reflection on Jeff Bezos\u2019 bald head and yet can never touch it.<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/14596718157_1a27e004e6_b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Deportmental ditties : and other verses;\u2019 Graham, Harry, 1874-1936. London : Mills &amp; Boon 1900.&nbsp;(University of Toronto)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I must say\u2014everything stated in the first paragraph is utterly false. No part of it is true (except the part about the walking). Most billionaires don\u2019t work harder, don\u2019t think harder, and don\u2019t know more. They have nothing over your average person except: a) luck b) sometimes inheriting a fortune and c) being more sociopathic. So I guess you could say they\u2019re extraordinary on the sociopathy front. They are more willing to crush other humans to get what they want and thereby they are more able to get what they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this might slightly explain why a vein bulges in my forehead when I read that billionaires are doing better than ever during this global viral outbreak that has killed hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEE CAMP: The Secret Reason Billionaires Love a Pandemic You see, there has been a class war going on for years \u2013 perpetrated by the rich (who aren\u2019t smarter or better) against everyone else. We live in a time when there are more billionaires walking around than ever before. (They don\u2019t actually walk. They have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9961,6963,425,29622,1824,868,14180],"class_list":["post-53750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-billionaires","tag-consortium-news","tag-inequality","tag-lee-camp","tag-sociopaths","tag-wealth","tag-wealth-disparity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53751,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53750\/revisions\/53751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}