Nah, he's 100% a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" guy. He goes around making a bunch of assertions for which he has no evidence, but conveniently confirm h

Nah, he's 100% a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" guy. He goes around making a bunch of assertions for which he has no evidence, but conveniently confirm his worldview and require him to change his habits not at all. I googled "how much do millennials spend on avocado toast" and got a bazillion results with sources about how it's not an issue. I also just googled "australia tradies productivity" and after some reading, it seems a lot more likely that the slowdown in productivity is from firm consolidation leading to a lack of competition. If he really cared about this stuff, he'd be advocating for stricter antitrust (monopoly regulation is I think what it's called in Australia) rules, but weirdly you find almost no multimillionaire business owners doing so. Instead they spend their column inches arguing that we need to whip the rowers harder so the boat goes faster. Or hey, CEO pay spiked too, meaning they've also been paid a lot more to do at least the same amount of work they were doing. Is he also advocating for higher levels of unemployment for the CEO class? Definitely not! > No lie, I’ve seen a slice of avocado toast on a menu for $12. It made me irate. For a point we have in common, I have problems in most Italian restaurants because of exactly this. I'm like, "I know this cost $4 and 15min to make, why does it cost $25". Yeah yeah I know I'm subsidizing the steak or whatever, but: - I probably more than make up for that w/ my drink orders - I still don't like it! (lol)