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May 27, 2014

The last line (which he talks over, too) says it all.

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“Watch Kevin O’Leary blow a gasket over Thomas Piketty’s “insane” ideas.”

Here’s the crux of Piketty’s seminal book, Capital in the Twenty First Century:

When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.

This is the same guy who, just a few months ago, said “it’s fantastic” that the 85 richest people on the planet have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people (or half the world’s population.)

If we have full cups—in Buddhist parlance, meaning we can’t accept new ideas—no matter how right we are—about veganism, Tea Partyism, Feminism, any cause—we become poor advocates for “our” cause.

Case in point:

Aggression breeds aggression. This man seems to force his ideas into all space–I’d hate to see how he behaves in the bedroom, if he’s lucky enough to have a relationship.

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