World’s Richest Woman Says Workers Should Work for $2 Per Day
The world’s richest woman, Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart, is again making the news, this time by suggesting that workers in Australia should be 
willing to work for $2 per day in order to compete with workers in poor countries:
We must be realistic, not just promote class warfare. Indeed, if we competed at the Olympic games as sluggishly as we compete economically, there would be an outcry.
The evidence is unarguable that Australia is indeed becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export- orientated business. Africans want to work. Its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country’s future.
Rinehart is in favor of lowering Australia’s minimum wage so that their workers are more competitive with workers in poor countries.
It never occurs to Rinehart that the reason African workers are willing to work for such paltry wages is because she and her ilk are hoarding billions of dollars. If the wealth were fairly distributed, then no one would be forced to work for $2 per day.
Rinehart made news last week when she said that poor people are poor because they’re lazy drunks:
If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.
This whole pull yourself up by your bootstraps message is all well and good until you learn that Rinehart never did any such thing. She inherited a $30 billion dollar mining empire from her family, and doesn’t know a thing about what it means to build your own wealth or make your own money.
Also, discussions about discipline seem strange coming from a woman who has obviously missed more gym sessions than she has meals. But Rinehart doesn’t expect that she should be required to live by rules. Rules, like low wages, are for poor people.
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Wealth is not “distributed”, it is earned or not earned. Taking money from the wealthy is of no use because the poor that it is redistributed to the poor would be wasted.
The rich would then regain their wealth because the poor would spend their ill gotten gains on trinkets and toys from the chains of distribution that the rich people own.
That is the best description of why there are rich and poor in this country.
If there ever is class warfare, the rich would simply hide, while the poor put up a fake fight based on their incorrect perception of wealth and/or why they’re poor.
Money doesn’t determine who’s rich or poor, habits do. Unless and until the poor DECIDE to change their habits, or until the rich decide to adapt the sorry habits of the poor, the world will never change.
I know of so, so many poor people who have $280 cable bills, but are on public assistance?! They decry the rich, many of whom don’t have cable at all, or just have basic cable with the news channels.
You want to see a real b****y war, go and try to get the 60″ HD Flat Screen 3-D, Wi-Fi, Internet ready TVs out of the poor people’s homes!!! THAT will be one for the record books!!!
Who left the friggin’ gate open? A person who goes to work for 8 hours a day EARNS a h**l of a lot more than $2 per day, or $7.00 per hour for that matter. The minimum wage in this country is a little more than $7.00/ hr, and for a full time worker, that’s about $15,000 / year. Meanwhile, the CEO walks away with millions, if not billions, and that’s fair to you? That’s EARNED?! Whatever the CEO contributes is automatically worth exponentially more than what the worker contributes? That’s really you contribution to this article? You’re an idiot, worshiping your master.
And to say that the rich would just regain their wealth if they paid a fair wage is just speculative nonsense. Where’d you get that load of c**p from? And what has the fat billionaire chick ever earned? She was born with a silver pork chop in her mouth. What does she know about what it takes to be competitive? If habits determined who is rich and who is poor, then the overweight billionaire would live in a trailer, since she obviously lacks self control, but that’s not what happened is it?
Poor and middle class people do have our habits under control. We’re forced to budget every day, and reign in our spending, whereas ‘ol pork chop splurge on whatever she likes. She wouldn’t know what to do with $2 a day, and judging from the pic, she surely couldn’t eat off two dollars a day, so give me a break with that c**p.
@ Biggest Boss…..Lmbo! However, you do have a valid point…
As long as “The Poor” fight to protect the golden handcuffs of their jobs, (Insurance and other ‘benefits), instead of trying to create something, they will remain poor. Capitalism is built on building, not on being a drone in a system that they could have very well built themselves.
The working class is too busy protecting “workers rights” with passion that they don’t see the opportunity that exists all around them.
It’s like a kid fighting for better conditions for tricycle riders, an deriding automobile drivers, when it’s actually time to get a car and BE a driver! It’s, self retardation, and the defense thereof!
h**l, everybody who is rich is really a poor person who decided not to be poor anymore!
Newsflash, and econ 101: The world needs workers, and would crumble without them. Businesses need consumers. That’s how economics works, and not every can or should become a business owner. What do you think they call those people that businesses hire, and why do you think businesses hire them? Dumber and dumber with every comment…
Jeff you are not a capitalist. First rule is not everyone can sit at the top of the pyramid. So for capitalism to work you must have workers and those workers have been the poor. But the worker is also the consumer so under your plan we do away with the worker and all become Capitalists so who will buy if everyone is capitalist and who will work.
Organizing labor forces is what Capitalist do but treating them humanely and fairly is their part in civilization. Never will the workers in large numbers move from the working class because the numbers dictate that they can’t support for everyone to run a multimillion dollar business, But can business be run in a way that all can benefit and a man can work to support his or her family with dignity? Of course it can as long as they are not fat greedy b*****d like the subject of this article.
This trailor trsah looking chick is dum as she speak , who cares about her opinion, when she havent worked and earned a dime..But Karma is waiting for her anyway.You dont keep talking c**p…………. about others as if your life is golden and can’t be disrupted………People should be paid fair wages for their experience, skills and qualifications…..this b******e has life twisted.
Thank you BiggestBoss, this Jeff person is seemingly misinformed!
Pay fair wages, every job is needed, so pay fair wages and quit being cheap
At least the poor people know how to maintain if that selfish a*s women lost all her money today she wouldn’t no what to do she probably kill her self shyt the poor people pay higher bills then the rich all the rich is sitting next to the devil they can’t take their money with them when they die to much money make u miserable their selfish and plain evil.
Jeff is a @$$hole I know who he will be voteing for!!!
She should start with her fat sloppy looking self. Save the animals by working for 2 dollars so she eats less. She is taking up to much space.
These crackers are the same ALL over the world…greedy and corrupt!
This big greasy hippopotamus pale thang is a REAL slave driver.
THE RICH GET RICHER; WHILE THE POOR GET POORER!!!
SOUNDS LIKE THESE RICH CAUCASOID BOYS HERE IN RACIST amerikkka!!!
Australians…Brit’s rejects…they never got over it…wonder why the powerless who gain power are so dead bent on keeping it and showing their ugly side….
She hasn’t worked for the money she has. She inherited her money, so what the h**l? Let’s see if you can live off $2 per day with the lifestyle you’ve been living. I don’t think so. Save it. She should be teaching her children and grandchildren how to work and get paid $2 per day. You better clean your own backyard before you throw trash in someone elses.
That big fat ugly piece of trailor park trash b***h needs to shut her big mouth. She looks lazy and drunk if u ask me. Only a drunk would make such ridiculous statements in the first place. Shes an Aussie a*s…
This sounds like tea party, down under style. This woman is the female version of the Koch brothers.
Australia is a Racist Nation!!! Just ask the Aboriginals,I just left a Job because some Australian Hoodrats wanted me to go upin them but I said nogo so they conspired with other Whites to can a Negro it’s cool I got Another job starting Saturday Holla! Crackers all stick Together Blackfools do the Same! This BigFatFunkyB#tch need to go eat a Large BlackPenis that’s what these Whitewomen love to do in Australia Anyway lol But they will turn around & make a Racist Comment? I’m a Night time Negro that’s why I Married an Aboriginal! I need someone who can relate & understand me! Most of these BlackAmericanFools over here with Whitewomen most of them from the Deep South too! SleepingwiththeEnemy lol All Day Suckas!
Jeff go preach that stuff to RedNeckCrackers from the DeepSouth I Hope Allah get at All Y’all keep your eye on the Weather! You Whitefolks own everything & will take the Biggest Loses Rain Hail Snow & EarthQuakes that’s why I left LA it will be Gone if I was y’all I would buy some Arizonia Desert lol
My Wife just told me the Father of this tubboflard was a Cracker who once stated that All Aboriginals should be Sterilized! This Cracker got rich from Mining on Aboriginal Lands in Mines & this Cracker got all kinds of Kids by Blackwomen & don’t even claim them? Dirty a*s Devil he not even Human!Code 10 Blackfolks it’s the Enemy!
racist woman
It’s interesting….I have a female friend with the same views and even sterner morality. Yet she and I get away every few months to “get it on” and does she let loose about stuff. She’s the exact opposite of what she preaches, and she does have an audience. Double lives??? I suspect the same here…
That lazy, uppity, obese swamp sow would go out of breath by opening a bottle of nail polish.
She needs to take her poor white trashy trailer trash a$$ and get a job. She would eat McDeath out of business.
Tell that b***h to give away her ill gotten gains and try paying utilities and rent, car costs, gas for cars, kids, pets, etc… on $2.00 a day… What an evil b***h to say that kind of s**t… Every family deserves some luxuries… Her entire world is built around luxury… I bet she owns Mulit-million dollar Yachts, cars, homes, T.V.’s, jewelry and everything else… But I bet she could’nt live off of a million dollars a year… Dirty b***h… and I hope she gets taxed out the a*s… Dirty c**t!!!
If you are the richest woman in the world, and you are big, fat, ugly, dumpy, and disgusting looking like her compound with being a greedy white devil, what else would you think. All the money she has would not help her. Can you imagine having all that money set up for you in life, but you were cursed looking like that disgusting tub of lard…..
Oh Jeff-in laymans language-knock it off. How the so called entitled thinks of all those who are poor, stigmatized, and for the most part trying to be all they can be to support the foolish ways of a society that teaches it’s citizens rich and poor to consume, consume at any price.
Jeff -pa many of these poor people are poor because of obstacles that where put in front of them centuries ago. Obstacles as yourself- shear hate towards a people that are VICTIMS of a GREEDY RACIST SOCIETY that never did give a d**n about people of COLOR.
You best to believe the businesses who the poor spend their monies with don’t share your ignorant views. By the way Jeff-how would a capitalist society exist had their be no poor,uneducated, low esteem people that need to feel apart of this nite mare of being an American- and at the same time-having so called entitled Americans dictate to you how to live?
Poor folk try to assimilate-so they won’t lose their mind in America- what a constellation one has as a human being in a so called free country.
Boycott Christmas 2012
Let that fat a*s white bit-h work for $2.00 a day oh, that’s rite that fat white bit-ch devil a*s is rich so i can see way she think this. I say her a*s needs to pull away for the table for her a*s is to big looking like a big pig that need to be sold to the market plus she need to give her money away before she eat your a*s to dealt.com!!lol