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Home Depot billionaire on workers "don’t want to work - I’m too lazy, I’m too fat, I’m too stupid." [1]
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Date: 2022-12-31
93 year old Billionaire and Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus is a doctrinaire Plutocrat who blames ‘woke people’ and workers who demand a decent wage for the decline of capitalism.
In 2016 and again in 2020 Bernie Marcus was one of Donald Trump’s top donors. He also is a big donor to Ron DeSantis. Marcus calls Trump’s policies as ‘spot on’ and he calls Biden “the worst president in the history of this country.”
This comes from a fawning article in the Financial Post:
'Woke people have taken over': Home Depot's billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus is worried about capitalism 93-year-old co-founder of the DIY chain laments the lack of risk-taking in today’s business world The list of potential obstacles to entrepreneurial success in the United States today is long, according to Bernie Marcus, co-founder of The Home Depot Inc.: human resources executives, government bureaucrats, regulators, socialists, Harvard graduates, MBAs, Harvard MBAs, lawyers, accountants, Joe Biden, the media and “the woke people.”
“Thanks to “socialism,” he says, “nobody works. Nobody gives a damn. ‘Just give it to me. Send me money. I don’t want to work — I’m too lazy, I’m too fat, I’m too stupid.'”
“We used to have free speech here. We don’t have it,” Marcus says. “The woke people have taken over the world. You know, I imagine today they can’t attack me. I’m 93.
In his robust moral hierarchy of billionaire behaviour, Marcus reserves his greatest anger for those who will not give at all, covered in his book in a section entitled “The Problem of Greed.” But he also criticizes an inexplicable caution among many of those “sitting on a pot of gold”
That despite his former company Home Depot having indulged in stock buy-backs, “sitting on a pot of gold”
Bernie Marcus reeks of entitlement and arrogance that so many billionaires seem to share.
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