Kevin O’Leary says 3.5 billion people living in poverty is ‘fantastic news’

Last year, Oxfam released a frightful statistic on global wealth inequality and rising poverty. The wealth of the world’s 85 richest people is now equal to that of the world’s poorest 3.5 billion people. While most of us would consider this to be a very sad reality, Kevin O’Leary thinks otherwise.

The Canadian venture capitalist, in an episode of The Lang and O’Leary Exchange, gave an illuminating demonstration of how obscene wealth can cause an empathy deficit.

“This is fantastic news and of course I applaud it,” he proclaims to his open-mouthed co-host Amanda Lang. When she protests that an African living on a dollar a day wouldn’t share his opinion, O’Leary simply argues that Oxfam’s data should inspire the world’s poorest people to be the next Bill Gates.

He further adds: “It’s a celebratory stat, I’m very excited about it”. He then continued to state, “if you work hard, you might get stinking rich”.