You may not have heard of Gina Rinehart before now, but I guarantee after reading this post you won't soon forget her name.
According to an article in the Digital Journal, the world's richest woman has incensed more than just her fellow Australians after she recently claimed that poor people that are just jealous of the rich. The mining magnate heiress is worth an estimated $30.1 billion.
"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain," Rinehart apparently said. "Do something to make more money yourself—spend less time drinking or smoking and socializing, and more time working."
Pretty rich advice (no pun) coming from who a woman who likely hasn't lifted a finger a day in her life, except to hoist a glass of champers to her lips.
Rinehart further salted wounds by claiming the Australian government should reduce the minimum wage and give the wealthy tax breaks.
"These sorts of comments are an insult to the millions of Australian workers who go to work and slog it out to feed the kids and pay the bills," said Australia's deputy prime minister Wayne Swan.
Obviously not all of us inherit a fortune and have the luxury to wax lyrical from a horse as high as hers. Money doesn't buy you love, but someone should tell Rinehart it doesn't buy you brains, either.
I wonder if the Richest Woman has any heirs of her own. Willing to wager they're blinging it up on Instagram...
Do Rinehart's comments leave you seeing red, or does she have a valid point? Does hard work necessarily beget money and success?
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