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Old 01-24-2015, 09:37 AM
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Default Oh, World Economic Forum...

Where a billionaire who flew his two nannies to the conference on a private jet talks about how we must all learn to live on less.

And then there's this gem, from the CEO of Blackstone, explaining why he doesn't support giving more money to education:

"I’ve always wondered, what you do in a society with people who just retire,” he told conference attendees. “If you could get those people, like a board, [to be an] unpaid workforce, pay them next to nothing or nothing, and have them go into the school system to be mentors to kids, and be an example of a certain type of success that you would get dramatically different outcomes. If you can get unemployed people that cost nothing, that can have this dramatic difference, that costs nothing. I love things that cost nothing that have great results. Imagine if you laid on technology and other types of things, you could really set the world on fire with this type of stuff.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/blackstone-gr...RkMDNs.twitter

There's a word for an unpaid labor force... not volunteer... the other one... what is that word again? I think it was very popular in the South until sometime in the mid 1860s or something like that... Gadzooks... what was it?
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