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Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« on: September 07, 2012, 12:10:05 am »
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An Australian mining heiress who courted controversy last month for suggesting her countrymen were just too lazy to be rich is at it again.

Gina Rinehart, thought to be the world's richest woman, chastised miners for being “too expensive,” saying, “Africans want to work. Its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day.”

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This isn’t Rinehart’s first jab at Australia’s working class. In a recent article, she wrote, “If you're jealous of those with more money... spend less time drinking, or smoking and socialising and more time working.” That remark touched off its own media firestorm, with politicians and pundits alike pointing out that Rinehart acquired the source of her wealth simply by being born into the right family.

Apparently, Australia has produced a business magnate more obnoxious than Rupert Murdoch and Clive Palmer combined.  I mean seriously, I read her bio on Wikipedia and knew she was a fucking cunt, but I didn't realize she was this bad.
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2012, 12:16:01 am »
Saw this on BBC yesterday. Who is this woman and why haven't Australian robbed her to death yet?
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2012, 12:16:35 am »
We kinda like to pretend Gina Rinehart and her gold-digging stepmother Rose Porteous don't exist...
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2012, 12:24:13 am »
You'll be happy to know that she finances political campaigns.
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2012, 12:25:48 am »
For some reasons Australians like to think we are special, that we left the class politics of Britain behind. If people still think that, after Murdoch, Palmer, Packer, Rineheart, Forrest, etc, then they are bloody stupid.

Also, Clive Palmer could one day become the single biggest contributor to CSTDT.
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2012, 12:36:07 am »
I know I really shouldn't be surprised, but the entitlement complex on this fuckwit is downright amazing. She's born into an already rich family and goes on to become the richest woman on earth through nothing more than a few lucky investments followed by a big fuckoff mining boom, then she has the fucking gaul to complain that the mine workers aren't willing to submit to wage-slavery.

Normally I wouldn't be so bothered, but the fact that she's in a position to strongly influence the government is a wee bit of a scary thought.
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2012, 12:48:01 am »
....I have things to say about her, but I can't do that here.

I will say, however, that I feel like doing something in the proud tradition of Ned Kelly.
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2012, 12:57:50 am »
I think the 32 dead at the Lomin Mine in South Africa when a wage dispute turned really ugly pretty much proves that Africans will not work for less than $2 a day, and will kill people who try and force them to.

But then when did facts ever get in the way of the super riches levels of entitlement.
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2012, 01:15:32 am »
Quote from: Sylvana on September 07, 2012, 12:57:50 am
I think the 32 dead at the Lomin Mine in South Africa when a wage dispute turned really ugly pretty much proves that Africans will not work for less than $2 a day, and will kill people who try and force them to.

But then when did facts ever get in the way of the super riches levels of entitlement.

Yeah, the article mentioned the situation in South Africa.  But people like Rinehart are rich enough to occupy a different reality from the rest of us.

Seriously, what kind of lack of self-awareness does it take to say things like this?
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2012, 01:42:03 am »
She also writes Poetry, no shit this is a poem she wrote and had engraved on a 30 tonne Iron Ore Boulder.

It is also the only thing she has ever given anyone other than indigestion.

Foul does not begin to describe her squalor:

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And this is a video she uploaded through the Sydney Mining Club where she made her comments, comments arising from duty not self interest:

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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2012, 01:48:16 am »
^^Wow, that was fucking horrendous.

But the fact that she mentions multiculturalism is further evidence that it is a marketing plan of the rich to promote greater mobility of cheap labor.
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2012, 02:16:52 am »
AAAAAAAH!  Its my aunt Karen, except with dark hair.  And she, uh...she went bugfuck nuts because one of her dogs died, and burned her house down.

Australia, watch that woman...she can afford a lot more flammable shit than Karen could, and that will not end well.
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« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2012, 02:18:24 am »
Holy shit...

The years, they have not been kind to Miss Rinehart.
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« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2012, 02:21:46 am »
I'm pretty much convinced that Palmer and Rinehart are the Australian equivalents of Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Bros.

I don't normally wish death upon people...but I will say that all of humanity would be better off without these people.
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Re: Gina Rinehart: Africans willing to work for $2/day
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2012, 02:30:42 am »
But, surely, future generations will praise them for standing bravely against the evil forces of governmental regulation and basic human empathy!
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