What an asshole.

[TheMightyFavog]

http://weareonepercent.tumblr.com/

I worked hard in high school, got a full scholarship, and attended a good university. I have 3 majors, and take 21 credit hours per semester. I get straight A’s because I study over 50 hours a week and I actually study on weekend nights. I am the 1%. I also networked a lot and managed to land two internships: one with a large investment bank this summer, and now I currently work at a hedge fund, on top of my 21 credit hours. I may not sleep much, but I refuse to blame others for my problems, or to give up on my quest to make a good life for myself. I never expected anything from the government, and I never blamed the investment banks on any of my problems. Maybe it’s because I understand how they work, or maybe it’s because I understand that they are good people who are trying to make a good living just like the rest of us. I also know that everyone who works on Wall Street is much more intelligent than everyone in the “99 percent” and that they worked 100+ hours a week out of college to pay off their student loans. As soon as they did, if they were even able to living in Manhattan, they went back for an MBA.

The average investment banker graduates with an MBA at age 28 with over $100,000 in debt. So while you’re mad that the government won’t subsidize you to fingerpaint with your BFA and a low GPA, remember that there’s someone out there who’s still in debt at age 30 with a BS and MBA from Harvard with Honors, who has worked more hours in a week that you could ever fathom. But at least they know what America is all about. The pursuit of happiness. Not the subsidy of happiness, not the gift of happiness…the free ability to pursue your goals, and to aspire to be rich in the future if that is what you desire, or to pursue whatever other goal you might have.

Every 99% post I’ve seen is about how people are in debt and unemployed. Guess what: many investment bankers were laid off in 2008, and have continued to be unemployed. Even Ph.D’s have struggled to find work as quants. Bank of America is firing commercial bankers. Most bulge brackets are on hiring freezes. Unemployment is even worse in the finance world than the rest of society, but you all are too ignorant to realize that.

You should see his comments on the 99% stories. "You should have taken a REAL major in college" "Bankers work 100+ hoirs a week and earn their money" and all the other bullshit.

[liberal N proud]

1. Must be feeling some shame for his elitism

If he has to defend it, he must feel it is not justified completely.

The protest are working.

[treestar]

2. Doesn't even sound true

And he must have been doing speed in college.

Why do they think this finger wagging is going to be credible? Or that the 99% even cares? Then don't work so "hard." That's my answer to that shit. Why should anyone have to work that many hours in this day and age?

[Amonester]

33. They should "work" HARDER then, according to the stupid cain...

100 hours/wk of hard "work" (consisting mostly at screwing honest and TRUE workers) obviously isn't enough, yet... according to the stupid cain.

[chelsea0011]

3. Hope he signed hois name and place of employment? I bet he didn't.

[Richardo]

4. "Even Ph.D’s have struggled to find work as quants."

I think that last word is misspelled - it starts with 'c', and there's no 'a'.

[City Lights]

5. I bet one of his majors is Lying.

This reeks of bullshit. Anyone can type anything and dump it onto the Internet.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. My heart fucking bleeds.

:nopity:

And I don't actually believe anybody has 3 majors, takes 21 credit hours per semester, gets straight A’s, studies over 50 hours a week, has two internships, and works at a hedge fund on top of their 21 credit hours.

[formercia]

8. Not unless they're doing some serious drugs.

Readily available on Wall Street.

[myrna minx]

9. If we can't take Walter Mitty at his word, we are deeper trouble than we thought.

:D

[MedicalAdmin]

50. I did a schedule like that in college.

Between working, classes, studying, etc. I was on the go about 20 hours a day, 7 days a week. In the summers I pulled the same hours on the oil field to pay for my college. And I took an average of 25 credits a semester. My main program has a 50 percent attrition rate per year. My other degrees (I took 3 concurrently) weren't much easier. I also worked (musician) nightly for my skittles and beer.

The difference is that I did that and I don't think my shit don't stink.

Seriously, the dudes on Wall Street are smarter? Seriously. A friend of mine works in Fleet street as an international comparative law specialist and he doesn't say very complementary things about wall streeters he is forced to work with unless you think "too stupid to masturbate" is a complement.

[JVS]

7. He's wannabe 1%. Maybe he will be 1%, but right now he's scared shitless that he'll end up...

holding that $100K bag of shit without having a good job on Wall Street. Fuck him.

[Scuba]

10. "who has worked more hours in a week than you could ever fathom"

Tell that to the single mom working three jobs to support her family.

[myrna minx]

11. Or a migrant farm worker. I'd like for Mr Hedge Fund Manager

to trade places with a migrant farm worker for a day and see who does the hard work.

[Scuba]

14. No "stoop labor" for hedge fund managers. n/t

[seabeyond]

12. he is not a 1%'er. he has a point on the work he puts into his schooling beyond a lot of us.

and he is wrong on a lot he is saying or the assumptions he is making.

[NV Whino]

13. Well, he certainly has a BS degree

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. maybe even a PhD.

I definitely smell BS.

[CanonRay]

16. So he'll end up a 1%er

making nothing but bullshit, contributing nothing to society. Big deal. Typical finance prick.

[HughBeaumont]

17. NO. YOU'RE NOT.

Who are you trying to bullshit, Reaganite? 1%ers don't make tumblr pages; their "help" does that. This is a laissez-fail-loving, CNBC-slobbering wannabe douchenozzle hippie-puncher who wants to make fun of people, and should be cockpunched for being an idiot who doesn't know shit about shit.

[NutmegYankee]

18. Idiot thinks he is hot stuff for a Finance degree.

Want to prove you are useful to society as well as smart - get an Engineering degree. Any idiot can just move money around. A painter provides more value than you. A mechanic provides more value than you. A cook provides more value than you. They produce things. You produce nothing! The money you pretend to produce is merely stolen from others.

[gateley]

19. Loved the wallpaper on the site!

:rofl:

I :loveya: My Money!

[stuntcat]

20. "what America is all about. The pursuit of happiness."

it's sad that our society is so focused on constant growth and monetary gain that many young people are just success machines. To me people like this are sociopathic. The only thing that makes many of us happy is winning.

People are heartless, I see it every day, things like the video I can't forget of the young girl throwing a bag of kittens down a river, humans are constantly constantly doing these things to the beautiful world, the innocent animals. And I will see us get even worse and worse, I'm just glad my years are half over.

[FarLeftFist]

21. Who the fuck wants to work that much?! Seriously, get a life.

And if he doesn't blame the bankers and Wall St. then who does he blame?! Or will he at least admit that capitalism is an abject failure for a HUGE majority.

[NutmegYankee]

26. We're just the unwashed masses to people like him.

He is incapable of empathy. He just sees us as lazy or dumb and nothing will change that viewpoint.

[FarLeftFist]

47. Yeah, I have no problem working my 35-50 hrs a week. But 100+ hours?! F THAT, I have kids I want to

See grow up and help raise. Be a big part of their life. You only live 1 life, why waste it being a fucking slave. Save some room for the finer things in life.

[Historic NY]

22. Yesh but have they pay off their student loans?............

next time your at the bank see if the bank president is there? :shrug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. He is a dumbass and he is part of the 99%. The 1% do not work for a living.

[progressoid]

36. +1

[NashVegas]

45. He Works FOR Them, He Props Them up, and Hopes to Join Them

[raouldukelives]

24. Were just good people destroying the environment

and blowing up people to make a few bucks. Really good people who love to help destroy the lives of the poor and indigenous people who are exploited and beaten to make an extra nickel on a stock value. Just good hard working people who make death and torture the backbone of Americas retirement plan. Study hard and devote yourself to enjoying the suffering of others and you can be one of us!

[one_voice]

25. That's a mean and nasty....

site. :puke:

I know many people that work 70 hours a week, and are severely underpaid. WITH college degrees. Assholes!

Wanna bet it's a trust fund baby.

[Marrah_G]

27. I hate these people more every day

He isn't even part of the one percent. He is just another privileged douchebag who thinks he is better then the working class. The reality if that he is a fucking parasite who creates nothing of value.

What he doesn't understand is that there are more of me then there are of him and in the end he will lose.

[lonestarnot]

29. +++

!

[stuntcat]

39. "parasite who creates nothing of value"

precisely. It is what our economy encourages. To me it's sociopathic.

[peace13]

28. Too funny how many 99ers think that they are the 1%.

Go figure. The politicians like to spread that rumor! And the ignorant believe.

[Waiting For Everyman]

30. The 1%'s "work" is de-criminalized THEFT from the 99%.

Their "wealth" is not earned it is stolen, and belongs to someone else - those who actually earned it and built it. Regardless of lawless laws.

The 1% are no better and no different than knee-cappers on street corners. And their work is no different, only now the courts which used to prosecute them are enforcers for them instead because crimes have been repealed. That doesn't make the crime any less of a crime, and it doesn't make the criminals legitimate (only they themselves think so). Reality still prevails - just because a crime is taken off the books, that doesn't make it so that the crime didn't occur. The uber-rich are a criminal enterprise, and the more money we allow them to accumulate through absurdly low taxation and favoritism the more laws they can buy and be immune from, the more thefts they can go into. It's a vicious circle, and it will get worse until it just collapses and stops - when not enough victims are left to feed on, the the sharks will start feeding on each other.

We know who the criminals are. And we also know who does the earning and building. THEFT is still THEFT even if the law says it's ok. The 1% are just hoods who are immune from prosecution at the present time. But that can change. And it will. It's only a matter of time. When enough people who enable this have been wiped out themselves by it, it will change. We are nearing a tipping point now.

Al Capone was wealthy too. The only difference is he neglected to buy-off the laws he wanted to break before he broke them. Doing so, is what makes today's "businessmen" think they are so clever, it's the "expertise" they always bring up to justify their $million bonuses. Well "amoral" is not the same thing as "talented", the "emperor isn't wearing any clothes". It's an undeniable fact, it only needed the moment for the guy-in-the-street (the 99%) to become willing to say so, publicly. OWS is doing that. The 1%'s days are numbered, but they have such an entitled mentality they can't even imagine themselves becoming vulnerable or insecure, as their thefts have done to millions of others.

It should be a good show, when the swells' ship sinks beneath them... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Hc0TDBR3s ...I predict a rise in the stock of popcorn companies.

:popcorn:

[valerief]

31. You mean he didn't have to quit high school to take a job to support his family?

He doesn't know what work is.

[Cerridwen]

32. "never expected anything from government"? Really? Public or private high school?

The schools you went to before; public or private? You pay for the private schools or did mommy and daddy? Scholarship was a private fund or government? University; same question. If private, did you pay or did mommy and daddy?

Did they buy you a car and pay your insurance or did you pay? Did you use public transportation to get to and from school; to your "100 hr a week" job and internships?

Who did your grocery shopping so you could eat during those "100 hours"? Mommy? Daddy? Girlfriend? Boyfriend? Eat a lot of fast food while being waited on by those about whom you show such contempt? How would you have eaten without them? How do you know your food wasn't toxic? Have a private tester?

Who fixed your car, if you had one? Where did they learn their trade?

Who did your laundry? You? After "100 hours" of work? Who took out the trash? Who picked up the trash from the curb? On what streets did you drive or ride?

Who paid for your housing? Did you live at home? How do you know the house was built well? Was it built well? Were there permits and standards and codes?

Who maintains your life so you can work a "100 hours"?

You never expected anything from government?

Bullshit.

If it wasn't the government helping you it was sure as hell someone else. You don't do what you do without someone helping you. Who paid for the electricity, your phone, your internet, clean water? All those government and pseudo-government services you use and think nothing of?

You're not the 1%. You're part of the overseer class of the 99%. Hell, you're not even part of the gatekeeper class of the 99%. The difference between you and me; they gave you a lifetime supply of KY; and you're grateful.

Get back to me when you run your own life AND work "100 hours".

Fool.

"I would have freed a thousand slaves if only they'd known they were slaves."

[uponit7771]

34. ".....I worked hard in high school, got a full scholarship...."

That tells it all, no doubt

[MedicalAdmin]

51. I wonder how many ball sacks he had to suck for that.

Heterosexually of course.

I wonder if he is related to JC Christian. Anyone care to hazard a guess?

[Billypenn]

35. This isn't about work

its about control.

[TBF]

37. OK, sweetheart, you check back with us in 10 years when you're still over

your head in debt from the loans and you get laid off by whatever asshole bank you work for. Then we can have a conversation.

[shanti]

38. yes, major asshole

could you believe the snarky comments? he needs his ass kicked.

[Tom Ripley]

40. Another house slave lording it over the field slaves

[Catherine Vincent]

41. Here's an apt reply...

"You'll mellow out with a little age. Not everyone is blessed with the talents you have. Their burden is to suffer, yours is to work hard and share a little. Squeeze some room into your heart for benevolence and grace, you'll live longer." - project weenie (Houston Chronicle)

[Richardo]

43. +1

nice response

[styersc]

42. I' not pissed about not making a mint with a liberal arts degree.

I'm pissed that some elitist asshole has decided that because I make less then he does, doing what I love, it is alright to fuck me over in the workplace and marketplace. I do resent that because I do not want to ascend to millionaire status that it is ok to fuck me with ridiculous interet rates, fees, thieving penalites etc. I am willing to pay a reasonable fee, not be screwed out of my pay check to pay a dip shit giant bonuses that he gets from the taxpayer bailouts that I fund!!!!

[LeftinOH]

44. If any of this is true, he must have one hell of a cocaine habit. n/t

[fishwax]

46. lol

Hard not to laugh at it something so clearly full of shit :rofl: :eyes:

[lunatica]

48. I think I'll knit his name into my yarn banner

Someday... oooh la-la mon ami.... Someday...

[slackmaster]

49. Giving this a Rec because the thread is NOT about an unnamed guy on an unspecified TV show

:kick:

[lumberjack_jeff]

52. I don't have an MBA or a genius IQ. All I have is this pitchfork and time on my hands. n/t

[Fuzz]

53. Pride comes before the fall

[Buns_of_Fire]

54. Slacker. If he'd get off his lazy butt and study 100 hours a week instead of just 50...

...he might just make a good yard maintenance person for my chauffeur's domestic help. You need FOUR majors to work for me, kid, and don't you forget it! Oh, and 100 hours a week is for weenies, you whiny little snot.

Now, go get me some coffee, and don't forget the cream this time.

(I'll say this, though: the kid's got a future in TeaPublican politics.)

[Raine]

55. Congrats to him/her but lots of people have worked just as hard

became educated, did without sleep etc etc and got nothing and they are good people too. YOU are fortunate and just plain lucky and you couldn't have done it without the help of others ... QUIT acting like you're better than those who haven't been so L-U-C-K-Y.

[ismnotwasm]

56. ew

Narcissist type. Probably as asshole not only in general, but to work with or even be in the same room as.
AND he's a whiner. I worked full time and went to school full time and had a family as well.
Thing is, I'm a nurse and nurses see what the effects of a greed infested economy does. This asshole is just another entitled person who is part if the problem and wants no solution--a solution would show him up as the useless fuck he really is.