World’s richest woman to ‘jealous’ poor: ‘Drink less, work more’

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

World’s richest woman to ‘jealous’ poor: ‘Drink less, work more’
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, August 30, 2012 7:25 EDT

The world’s richest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, urged those “jealous” of the wealthy to “spend less time drinking” in a piece the government described as “insulting” on Thursday.

Rinehart, whose family iron ore prospecting fortune of Aus$29.2 billion (US$30.1 billion) also makes her Australia’s wealthiest person, hit out at those who she said were envious of the rich.

“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire,” she wrote in an industry magazine column.

“If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/30/worlds-richest-woman-drink-less-work-more/

[deutsey]

1. Yeah, everyone yearns to be you.

[JackRiddler]

37. Why, does she "work more"?

I'll take her inherited money. Inherited! Abso-fucking-lutely. She doesn't know what the fuck to do with it. She doesn't deserve it more than anyone else on the earth. No one "deserves" that.

She can drink and socialize much as she like, regardless of whether she does, and she didn't work for her money, she got born lucky. Fuck her.

[Trillo]

2. .

[jsr]

3. How about a little of this:

[greiner3]

8. Or at least;

Pilloried, Tar and Feathering or how about drawing and quartering, ala Mel Gibson in Braveheart.

[DBoon]

55. She said, "Let them eat cake".

nt

[McCamy Taylor]

4. That is one very insecure woman. Must suck to be her.

A lot of mega-rich people accumulate wealth in a futile attempt to fill the void within themselves.

[gopiscrap]

5. What an arrogant, selfish piece of shit!

[allan01]

6. re:World’s richest woman to ‘jealous’ poor: ‘Drink less, work more’

without us lady, there is no u. in the varnacular of my generation, UP YOURS.

[polly7]

7. An only child who inherited her fortune.

Yes, I can imagine how hard she's had to work.

[Cleita]

13. Betcha she also enjoys her cocktails served on the veranda

by her butler at sunset everyday.

[polly7]

14. Well scraping out that ore is thirsty, exhausting work. The poor woman's

probably asleep before her head hits the pillow at night.

[russspeakeasy]

17. I'm sure she has her struggles. How many more butlers

will I need ? Has everyone kissed my ass, or are there still some non-ass kissers out there ?
Reminds me of queen ann; we lived in a basement and had to sell some stock to get by..

[polly7]

19. Gah.

Can you imagine if they ever all got together for a stich'-n'-bitch?

[russspeakeasy]

23. I volunteer to cater their lunch.

[gateley]

27. Bwah!

[Blue_Tires]

9. She may be worth 19 billion, but she's dead inside

no amount of money can buy her soul back...

[onehandle]

10. How much mining has she done?

Wait, let me guess.

[russspeakeasy]

24. Damnit, don't keep me in suspense......what's your guess ??

[highplainsdem]

11. Despicable. She's also known for years of legal wrangling with relatives, and opposing taxes on

profits from exploiting nonrenewable resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart

[azurnoir]

12. Are she and Ann sorority sisters ?

Ann only wishes she could say such things

[cloudythescribbler]

15. she sounds exactly like the character (the villain) Cesar in August Wilson's "gem of the ocean"

[greiner3]

16. "After the death of her father in March 1992, Rinehart became Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospect

So this pimple on the face of humanity got her money, milions and milllions, from Daddy. Hard work turned that into a GREATER fortune!

[JDPriestly]

18. Gina Rinehart per Wikipedia:

Georgina "Gina" Hope Rinehart (born 9 February 1954) is an Australian mining tycoon. She is the heiress of Hancock Prospecting and the daughter of the late Lang Hancock and Hope Margaret Nicholas. In the 2010s, Rinehart bought a stake in media organisations, becoming the largest shareholder in Fairfax Media and taking a significant share in the Ten Network Holdings. During 2011, both Forbes Asia and Business Review Weekly reported that Rinehart was Australia's wealthiest person. In May 2012 BRW named her as the world's richest woman, having surpassed Christy Walton.[5]

. . . .

After the death of her father in March 1992, Rinehart became Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting Pty Limited (HPPL) and the HPPL Group of companies. All companies within the group are privately owned.

. . . .

AND

She became involved in an acrimonious legal fight with her stepmother, Rose Porteous, in 1992 over the circumstances of her father's death and control of the Hancock assets. The court cases and negotiations ultimately took 14 years to settle.[15]

. . . .

Before his death, Lang Hancock established the Hope Margaret Hancock Trust, nominating Rinehart as trustee, with his four grandchildren named as beneficiaries. The Trust holds a large share of the family's wealth.[19] In 2011, Rinehart's daughter, Hope Rinehart Welker, brought legal action in the NSW Supreme Court over a commercial dispute, to have Rinehart removed as sole trustee. Her brother, John, and sister, Bianca, were later revealed to be parties to the dispute.[12][20][21] In an agreement reached between the aggrieved parties, the Court granted an interim non-publication order. In making the interim order, Justice Paul Brereton stated "This is not the first occasion of discord in the family, which has immense wealth, no small part of which resides in the trust. In the past, the affairs of the family, including such discord, has attracted considerable publicity in the media."[22] However, in a judgement handed down on 7 October 2011, Justice Brereton said he intended to dismiss an application by Rinehart that there be a stay on court action and that the family be directed into mediation.[19][23] In December, three justices of the NSW Court of Appeal lifted the suppression orders on the case. However, a stay was granted until 3 February 2012;[24] and extended by the High Court of Australia until 9 March. Rinehart's application for suppression was supported by Ginia Rinehart; and opposed by Hope, John and Bianca, and media organisations.[25] A subsequent application by Rinehart for a non-publication order on the grounds of fear of personal and family safety was dismissed by the NSW Supreme Court on 2 February 2012.[26]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart

How to get rich:

1. Pick a rich father.

2. Inherit the money and the business from your rich father.

3. Fight with family members to insure that you get to control as large a share of your father's money as you possibly can.

She worked really hard. Yeah, sure.

[smirkymonkey]

44. Funny how the rich think ordering other people around constitutes "working really hard".

Either they are completely delusional or they are just total sociopaths.

[JDPriestly]

57. I wonder how many times this woman advising the poor to work hard went in and

dug in her father's mines. I bet never. I could be wrong, but while she may have visited a mine shaft on occasion, I bet she never actually mined.

[1StrongBlackMan]

20. Yeah ...

“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire,” she wrote in an industry magazine column.

“If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself — Like go out a find a rich family to be born into!

[Ikonoklast]

21. Fuck Off, Child Of Leisure.

Born into vast wealth, thinks she earned it.

[HughBeaumont]

22. "Don't Like Yer Lot in Life, WERK HARDER!!" - said the Ovarian Lottery Winner.

The Born-On-Third-Base wealthy who think like this make me fucking SICK.

[Rozlee]

25. That old maxim applies: If it was true that hard work made you rich

slaves would be millionaires.

[calimary]

28. GREAT one!

SUPERB!!!

[Blue_Tires]

42. +1000

[sinkingfeeling]

26. "Or just be born into a millionaire family like me."

[Trillo]

31. Time to get rid of the "monopoly" asserted by her not to exist ?

“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire,”

Every inheritance gets divided equally among everyone.

[ZombieHorde]

29. Jealously is when you are afraid to lose something, and envy is when you want what someone

else has.

[patrice]

30. What kind of "rich" person is concerned about what she perceives as "jealousy"? nt

[sarcasmo]

32. Eat the rich.

[avaistheone1]

33. I here echos of "you people"

Reminds me of MarieANNtoinette Romney

[Demeter]

34. I think she's just won the Marie Antoinette 1st for the Guillotine Award

Nobody could surpass that.

[defacto7]

40. it's definitely an "eat cake" moment

although, I understand Marie Antoinette actually wanted the poor starving people to share her cake, she even wanted to bake it herself...

NOT

[CBHagman]

58. The "let them eat cake" line is a myth, but Gina Rinehart isn't.

Look at Antonia Fraser's carefully researched biography of Marie Antoinette for the background.

As for the nasty billionairess who is the subject of the thread, this explains a lot:

[urlhttp://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/business/women/gina-rinehart-net-worth/[/url]

The Heiress of Hancock Prospecting, and the daughter of mining magnate Lang Hancock has now seen her fortune swell thanks to high iron ore prices, rising exports to China and a deal signed in January 2012 that will see South Korean steel giant Posco take a 15% stake in her yet-to-be-developed Roy Hill iron ore mine in Western Australia. In 2011, Citigroup projected that she is on course to overtake Carlos Slim, the Mexican magnate worth $69 billion, mainly because she owns her companies outright and has no shareholders. Rinehart has also invested in media companies Fairfax Media and Ten Network in what is seen as the next step in her crusade against Australia’s mining tax. Rinehart is a widow and mother of 4. Born 9 February 1954 at St John’s, Perth, Western Australia.

[the_chinuk]

35. Shut up, go back to work, or we'll shorten your chains and whippings shall resume.

[Proles]

36. It always seems to me that it's the rich who spend quite a lot of time

drinking, smoking, and socializing. Not as though they often worked very hard to get what they have either.

But they've never been poor in their life. So how can we expect them to empathize?

[SWTORFanatic]

38. Work more really means

work more at my company, I need bigger profits!

[Douglas Carpenter]

39. yep, if you just did a couple more overtime shifts - you can be a billionaire too

[Dont call me Shirley]

41. To the earth raping and pillaging "richest woman": F!Y!

Look at your own evils before you tell those you oppress and steal from to look at theirs! You are the richest woman in the world because you have a theivery problem! Stop stealing from others and mother earth!

[Hydra]

43. Oh internet, you rarely fail me...

Work harder, you lazy bums!

[goclark]

45. Is she related to the Rmoney family?

[Liberalynn]

59. Great One!

[davidn3600]

46. Just another super-rich that think the poor are lazy and don't work

[valerief]

47. HEIRESSES work so hard, too.

[PD Turk]

48. Fuck her

I don't know why we keep tolerating lectures from these fucking goons. We should follow Lemmy's advice

[wordpix]

49. Another rich Cruella - there are a lot of them

Ann's riding friend, maybe?

[ellisonz]

50. What a pig. n/t

[fascisthunter]

51. say that to our faces, in person... thank you

[librarylu]

52. She didn't build that.

[entanglement]

53. This is especially vile coming from a parasite who profits off the sweat and blood of miners and

has probably never done an honest day's work in her life. Successive, pliant Australian governments have been only too happy to grease the wheels of the mega-mining bosses to the detriment of mine labor and the public.

While the comment is abhorrent, it is revealing of the arrogance and sense of entitlement of the boss class in Australia. Even the pretend respect for workers has vanished and replaced by open displays of class contempt.

[xocet]

54. Apparently, she attended an elite school before university and likes the idea of mining with nukes..

THE BEAST FILE: GINA RINEHART
by Scott Mitchell May 4, 2011 at 06:25pm

...

At 21, Gina announced a plan to revolutionise open cut mining by using nuclear explosions. The plan was scrapped, but 20 years later she mused: “It’s a pity it didn’t happen”.

Rinehart became famous for her feud with Rose Lacson. Hired to look after her aging father, the Fillipino housekeeper married him. When Gina tried to intervene, her father cruelly rebuked her: “Allow me to remember you as the neat, trim, capable, attractive young lady … rather than the slothful, vindictive and devious baby elephant you have become. I am glad your mother cannot see you now". A few months later he removed her as a director of Hancock Resources.

Lang died in 1992. Rinehart spent 14 years brawling with her step-mother, the remarried Rose Porteous, over the estate. Lang’s body was cremated, but with Gina hoping tests would eventually prove Rose killed him, his heart, kidneys and liver were locked up in Perth mortuary where they remain to this day. The coroner found he died of natural causes.

While Rinehart successfully expanded the family company, she remained publicity-shy, bullet proofing her cars and office windows, and retaining former SAS men as bodyguards.

...

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/hungrybeast/stories/beast-file-gina-rinehart/

The iron lady
by Jane Cadzow January 21, 2012
...

His daughter worshipped him. "I think my father is nearly perfect," Rinehart said at the age of 12 on a BBC documentary, Man of Iron. Her mother, Hope, who was Hancock's second wife, told a magazine that she had overheard Gina say she didn't intend to sit for her junior school certificate because "Mummy didn't, and look what happened to her. She married Daddy." Hope had breast cancer, and though she lived long enough to dandle two grandchildren on her knee, was often unwell. Hancock was the dominant figure in Rinehart's childhood. "They were just inseparable," Singleton says.

Even when she was a weekly boarder at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls in Perth, Hancock often arrived in his white Jaguar to visit her in the afternoons. "He'd park in the driveway," remembers one of Rinehart's former dorm-mates, "and Gina would spend the hours after school and before dinner in the car, talking to her father." Hancock later suggested that both had resented the extent to which Rinehart's education kept them apart. "School was just a nasty interlude to put up with," he said. "Then she tried a year doing economics at Sydney University but she found out it was basically communist ..."

Rinehart told Robert Duffield, author of the Hancock biography Rogue Bull, that the university taught "the wrong things". Duffield noted that she parroted Hancock's political views, "mastering all his stock tracts, phrase by phrase". Singleton was aware of this, too: "I mean, a conversation with Gina was a conversation with Lang. They both had the same fanaticism ... If Lang paused, Gina could finish the sentence."

Their pet subjects included the desirability of Western Australian secession and the feasibility of using a nuclear bomb to create a harbour on the north-west coast. Businessman and former NSW Liberal MP Michael Yabsley says the young Rinehart could be pleasant company, though her refusal to listen to views that differed from her own had a tendency to kill dinner-party conversation. "You'd wait for it to be derailed because she didn't like something that someone said," Yabsley says. "It was always pretty tense."

...

http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/management/the-iron-lady-20120116-1q1u6.html#ixzz255UbzegG

[Incitatus]

56. Yes, if the workers in her mines who probably do more work in a day than she does in a year

didn't drink, they would be rich.

[sarcasmo]

60. Silver spoon from birth makes one blind to mankind's plight.