Dear Jamie Dimon: Kindly Fck Off
Whatever billionaires have is never enough. But if you're middle class, having an iPhone (or smartphone of any flavor, I suppose) should satisfy us. At least, in the Gospel According To Jamie Dimon.
“It’s not right to say we’re worse off,” Dimon told the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday during a q&a with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “If you go back 20 years ago, cars were worse, health was worse, you didn’t live as long, the air was worse. People didn’t have iPhones.”
Dimon, whose bank has invested $100 million in Detroit’s revitalization, also criticized an argument that no-one actually makes. The billionaire told Todd “you can take the compensation of every CEO in American and make it zero and it wouldn’t put a dent into” inequality.
I can look back to 20 years ago and remember the days when I didn't have an iPhone but was making exponentially more money until Dimon and his hedge fund cronies cut the legs out from under us. So I didn't have an iPhone, but I could actually do things. Go places, see people.