"...my father came to America at the age of 12 as a plumber’s apprentice. No education.”

“I went to public school in the Bronx, high school in the Bronx, college in the Bronx. I started my career in Wall Street the day after I got my MBA from Columbia. I had no money. I couldn’t afford a vacation. I made a lot of money. I’m giving it all back...

I'm imagining the cost of living that allowed his father to live on the salary of a 12 year old who worked as a plumbers assistant. I'm also imagining that this billionaire probably went to Bronx Science (a free public school now where attendees likely have paid for test prep to do well on the entrance exam, out of reach for a lot of NYC public school students). If he went to college in the Bronx, it was likely Fordham - the 2023 cost of attendance (tuition plus fees and books) is now $89,575. For an MBA from Columbia, their cost of attendance (which includes room and board) is now $127,058 in 2023.

He cannot make the connection that COL and earnings have grown exponentially since the time his father was 12, yet wages haven't. Does he not see that very few students would be able to go to private universities for undergrad and grad schools and service their debt with current wages? How many graduate and immediately start working on Wall Street? He's probably against WFH, too, solely seeing the benefit to his commercial real estate portfolio and ignoring the commuting costs and work life balance issues for the workers. The world capitalism gave him and his father is gone. At this point it's as real as ghosts and dreams. We are dealing with the current world that capitalism has given us, a capitalism that only a billionaire would cry over.

"I've lived the American dream.

While creating more nightmarish conditions for others.

Congratulations, and fuck you.

If he gave it all back, why is he still a billionaire?

capitalism is the best system

guy who made lots of money under capitalism expresses that capitalism is the best system

If he was giving it all back, the story would start with words “former billionaire.”

I also don’t understand this constant probing of the people when it comes time to provide assistance. I pay my taxes, that’s my contribution to social programs. When there’s a natural disaster or issue don’t put a bunch of celebrities on TV asking for slightly less poor people to donate. I want the government to step in and help out. Billionaires should not exist unless everyone has a safe place to sleep at night and warm meals to eat during the day. Considering that’s not the case, that’s how you know capitalism isn’t the best system

So he went to public school in New York back before Reagan started cutting taxes for the rich and exploding the wealth gap. The taxes that paid for that very school and gave him his start. Now this twat is on the conservative side of completely gutting public schools.

Good. They should cry.

There are times when Bernie and AOC aggravate me. Other times I think they're pretty smart. That's okay, I don't have to agree with someone 100% of the time. But, the rich...never in human history has greed trumped common sense as it does today. They use their wealth to promote negative consequences for society., and as long as they put more in their well lined pockets they're happy. Too much is not enough. Fuck em.

Now I want to see his reaction when people start breaking out the guillotines because his ilk have made peaceful resolution impossible.

yeah it worked for you, you miserable old fuck. unfortunately it's failed everyone else

if youre giving it away than you wont mind paying more in taxes so that more people can use a help up to get healthcare or go back to school.

Hey now, Leon Cooperman has given over $155 million in different grants and charities.

He just happens to have two billion three hundred and forty five million left over.

lottery winner tries to convince people to spend all their savings in lottery tickets: “It worked for me and it can work for you too”

Oh noes! If he pays more in taxes he might be just regular old dirty rich instead of obscenely-no-one-could-ever-contrubute-enough-to-the-world-to-justify-this-level-of-wealth-accumulation rich. I feel so sorry for him.

Remember, those tears are falling over the fear of not being able to squeeze the last dollar out of every other being anymore. They don't fear for their life. They fear not being able owning yours.

I was told there would be a video of a crying billionaire.

It's a good sign that they're scared

Make 'em cry.

Unless this mfer is buying suits at Goodwill and is so deep in poverty that he needs to visit soup kitchens and food pantries, he can go ahead and cry a river. Tell him to build a bridge so he can get over it, I'm sure he's got the cash.

I'm so tired of this style of journalism. Do headlines really need to imply people are ready to cry? This is not respectable journalism and I'm not even reading the rest of it after that.

Cry me a river.

disingenuous scumbag

Good.