World's richest woman wants her workers to take a pay cut
POSTED BY: kpo
UPDATED: Saturday, October 25, 2025 15:50
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I have to agree, CTS. If what she actually said was "Furthermore, Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future.", where did KPO get the "inspiration" bit? Sounds like she said the opposite, in a way.
Nonetheless; Magons, I will defer to your superior knowledge; she doesn't sound like anyone we want coming here, thank you. We have quite enough of those!
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Here are some extra quotes
‘The evidence is unarguable, Australia is indeed becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business,’ she said.
‘Furthermore, Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198868/Gina-Rinehart-Worlds-r
ichest-woman-calls-Australian-workers-paid-2-day.html#ixzz25emlY05C
Well, let's all compete with children eating garbage off the streets. THAT will make things hum!
Fortuntately, Gina has the media persona of a starving vulture, which makes her world view from a billionaires chair hard to swallow. Even people who basically share her philosophy have trouble stomaching her.
And what is not to love. She certainly is a true rag to riches story, er not.... having inherited her father's fortune and then being lucky enough to be established with mining leases at a time of unprecedented mining boom in this country.
We get fed the fiction in this country that without the mining boom we'd be in catastrophic resession, but the reality is mining takes a lot of credit that doesn't belong to it. Partially we avoided recession by being aligned to the asian economy, partially through government stimulous and partially, not fully to the mining boom.
People like Rinehart are vultures, that mineral wealth that strictly speaking does not belong to them but to australia largely goes overseas aklong with a lot of wealth because of her family's lease holdings.
It might be fair enough to talk about the high costs of labour, but that is the reality of living in a prosperous country where people can earn decent wages. The comparison to African mining, with its realities of shiteful conditions, and exploited work force is insulting and really just bad form, whatever way she meant it.
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It's doubly insulting that she brags about African miners being "willing" to work for two bucks a day, when you remember the video of the police opening fire on miners who were striking for better pay and benefits just a few weeks ago. Several miners were killed, several of the shooters are now under indictment for murder.
And this is what this idiot woman wants for Australia.
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Quote:Again, I don't think that is what she said at all.
Originally posted by Kwicko:
And this is what this idiot woman wants for Australia.
We can argue against what she actually said without resorting to strawmen and adhominems.
If we start arguing dishonestly, what are we really doing here? Masturbating in public to some fantasy porno in our heads?
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er, no....
just having a conversation about her statement and its meaning,
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Originally posted by canttakesky: Simply demonizing them as "selfish" isn't going to work.
It'll work w/ the clueless " 99% " Occu-babies. Those folks who are ignorant on such matters as to what it takes to run a successful corporation, and think that " profit " is actually a four letter word.
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by canttakesky: Simply demonizing them as "selfish" isn't going to work.
It'll work w/ the clueless " 99% " Occu-babies. Those folks who are ignorant on such matters as to what it takes to run a successful corporation, and think that " profit " is actually a four letter word.
Thank goodness you're not trying to demonize anyone!
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
er, no....
just having a conversation about her statement and its meaning,
Exactly. She's trying to put Australia's miners in a "race to the bottom" as far as wages and benefits go, competing with people working in horrific conditions in third-world countries for pennies a day.
How would it look if Romney held up a FoxConn employee in China and said this was what America should be looking to as a blueprint for the future?
It's more than a bit tone-deaf when someone who inherited billions of dollars through the Lucky Sperm Club starts telling people who actually work for a living that they should be willing to work harder for less so that she can have more.
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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Sir James Goldsmith lays it out in 1994:
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
How would it look if Romney held up a FoxConn employee in China and said this was what America should be looking to as a blueprint for the future?
Again, that is NOT what she's saying.
She has never said in that link that I could find that Australia needs to become more like Africa in wages.
Why do you insist on mischaracterizing her statements?
I don't like her anymore than the next person here. But the method here is wrong. And without integrity. You guys are better than that.
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