Rich CEO Tells 'Daily Show' The 'Mentally Retarded' Are Maaaybe Worth $2 An Hour - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Mitsudigi;43716489]Yeah, like there's a way to answer that without looking like a dick. This guy is right, people's worth in the workplace should be determined by their ability and output. Nobody should work full-time and have to live in poverty though.[/QUOTE] there's really no way to not look like a dick when you're trying to argue for eliminating a minimum wage

I think that state welfare was designed to help people who are handicapped or otherwise unable to provide for themselves, and it should be used that way. Perhaps it could be in the form of reimbursing employers for hiring handicapped staff.

[QUOTE=WaLLy3K;43719907]Oh come on, it took me two seconds to think of a polite term such as "Mentally disadvantaged". Not great, but it comes off a lot better than saying "Erm, politically correct term please?" and "retarded".[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.theonion.com/articles/rejected-euphemisms-for-the-disabled,7173/[/url] Stumbly-wumblys is my favorite.

[QUOTE=geel9;43716621]What he said kind of makes sense... obviously not [b]all[/b] mentally retarded people cannot perform well at jobs and earn a very good wage, but being mentally retarded [b]can[/b] and [b]often does[/b] severely impact work performance. If work is shoddy, work is shoddy. It doesn't MATTER who does the work, it's not WORTH AS MUCH if it's not good work.[/QUOTE] i've worked with plenty of pretty handicapped people that are perfectly capable of doing their jobs. sure there are extremes, but i'd wager most individuals can work a basic labour job no problem.

[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;43716122]I want to know what he was originally going to say, if he considers "mentally retarded" to be the politically correct alternative. :v:[/QUOTE] He was grasping for a polite way to say "water-headed mongoloid babymen." Edit: But let's face it. Even if he had said "developmentally disabled," "differently able," "handi-capable," etc., he'd still be a massive scumbag.

[QUOTE=Rubs10;43719398]A person shouldn't have to live in poverty or suffer more than anyone else because they have a handicap.[/QUOTE] You seem to be confusing setting a lower minimum wage with getting rid of government assistance.

In terms of labour, economically speaking the severely mentally disabled aren't able to contribute a lot of value in very many (if any) commercial or industrial sectors. I'm talking about people so severely disabled that they can't speak or move without assistance. I remember volunteering to push some of these kids around in their wheelchairs when I was in Primary (elementary) school and looking back on those kids now is truly heartbreaking. To reduce the value of a human being to a financial worth though is a dick move

In the Netherlands, companies are subsidized when they employ mentally challenged people.

[QUOTE=sgman91;43721549]You seem to be confusing setting a lower minimum wage with getting rid of government assistance.[/QUOTE] maybe an idea could be, that the employers pay that low amount or whatever, and the govt. makes up the rest of their pay [editline]30th January 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=V12US;43722114]In the Netherlands, companies are subsidized when they employ mentally challenged people.[/QUOTE] yeah like this

[QUOTE=Wizards Court;43716069] [sp]remember kids, CEOs are nice people.[/sp] [/QUOTE] yeah fuck Gabe Newell and former CEO Bill gates! But this is quite the asshole, and his worth what you are worth quote is also disgusting

[QUOTE=Hat-Wearing Man;43716132]Why do rich CEO's [B]always [/B]have such punch-able faces?[/QUOTE] [img]http://vgn365.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Valve-Gabe-Newell-600x250.jpg[/img] tell me you want to punch that face please. Straight face now. [editline]30th January 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43716146]Isn't every face technically punchable?[/QUOTE] [img]http://i2.kym-cdn.com/profiles/icons/big/000/125/178/Gabe_Newell.jpg[/img] he's onto you

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43716146]Isn't every face technically punchable?[/QUOTE] Facepunch.

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;43721098]i've worked with plenty of pretty handicapped people that are perfectly capable of doing their jobs. sure there are extremes, but i'd wager most individuals can work a basic labour job no problem.[/QUOTE] Then they're clearly not the kind of mentally retarded person whose work is worth $2. What's the problem? Many people's work can be defined as only worth $2. They don't have to be mentally retarded for this to be true.

[QUOTE=geel9;43724752]Then they're clearly not the kind of mentally retarded person whose work is worth $2. What's the problem? Many people's work can be defined as only worth $2. They don't have to be mentally retarded for this to be true.[/QUOTE] please provide examples.

Wasn't mentally retarded a term that was made to be politically correct but later became "mean"?

Why would people be worth income and not jobs

[QUOTE=itisjuly;43724999]Wasn't mentally retarded a term that was made to be politically correct but later became "mean"?[/QUOTE] Society changes. Words become insults, others became jokes (peasant, plebeian, etc.)

[QUOTE=Wizards Court;43724895]please provide examples.[/QUOTE] Somebody who does [b]really shitty work[/b] Your work is worth what your work is worth. Who you are, what you're struggling with, that doesn't mean it's worth any more than the product of what you do.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;43717164]I remember seeing a news article on the local news in Vancouver with a good story. There's a young mid 20 somethings highly developmently disabled and social disabled guy who has started his own business with his fathers help. He builds Ikea furniture for people and he does it very, very well, people in the area are happy to employ the guy because he works hard and doesn't charge a shit ton for his services and no one really wants to build ikea furniture.[/QUOTE] I've built ikea furniture black out drunk before and it came out awesome.

The dude is a massive prick, but some of his economical opinions and predictions are fairly accurate. [Quote=Wiki]In his 2007 book Crash Proof, Schiff wrote that United States economic policies were fundamentally unsound.[18] Since then, he has stated many times that, without a change in U.S. government economic policy, there will be hyperinflation in the U.S.[18][19] and that the imbalance between the amount of goods the U.S. consumed and what it produced would eventually lead to problems for the U.S. economy. As a remedy Schiff favored increased personal savings and production which he said would stimulate economic growth.[20] Schiff cited the U.S.'s low personal savings rate as one of the causes of its transformation from the world's largest creditor nation in the 1970s to the largest debtor nation in the year 2000.[21] Schiff attributed the low savings rate to what he asserts are high inflation and artificially low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve.[22][/Quote]

[QUOTE=SCopE5000;43720431]I think that state welfare was designed to help people who are handicapped or otherwise unable to provide for themselves, and it should be used that way. Perhaps it could be in the form of reimbursing employers for hiring handicapped staff.[/QUOTE] The problem with any state funded help is that people who don't need it or are lazy will take advantage of it. Because of this, some people who legitimately need it can't get it (My mom applied twice when I was a kid and was refused twice. She worked at Wal Mart for $4 an hour, while Me, My sister, and her, and her loser boyfriend at the time lived in a camper that's usually towed behind cars in the middle of a field. It was a proper address and everything, too. If we didn't qualify who the fuck does?) [img]http://garrettcampersales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/small-campers.jpg[/img] I lived in one of these for nearly a year with 3 other people. People don't know what poor and worth is or means

[QUOTE=Aetna;43725526]The dude is a massive prick, but some of his economical opinions and predictions are fairly accurate.[/QUOTE] there's nothing in here that's any surprise, he's said something that a million people have said before (our debtor status) and he also made a claim that was flat out incorrect (re:hyperinflation).