Poor People Suck (and are profitable!)

Poor people are a giant sufferance for the rich, they also are fantastically easy to get money from. While I prefer to deal with people of my own elite status and work to improve their hard lives, there are many among the elite with unnecessary liberal guilt that feel a need to waste it on these poor people who don’t seem to be able to figure things out for themselves and stop being poor. You see, I have lots of jobs in my factories around the world they can work in so they may be less poor, but they keep on striking, complaining about the fumes making them sick or the wages being too low, or losing their arm because the machines are dangerous. If they aren’t willing to move to my factories and work, why should I waste my money trying to help them out?

However, if you are a enterprising elite businessman like me, you see opportunity in stupidity. If my less intelligent liberal colleagues want to waste their money on the poor, why not take advantage of it? Yesterday, that commie rag, the New York Times, had a great article on we wise elite business types. To ensure they didn’t upset their Marxist base of readers, they threw in that Marxist twist about how it is helping people get drinking water and not starve, and completely avoided pointing out that they are poor for good reason.  However, the real businessmen understand the wink-wink nudge-nudge nature of such an article, kudos to them on that.

To do this, they talk as though all of the companies are like this pitiful “Vestergaard-Frandsen” company.  A company solely dedicated to providing goods to refugee camps and such. However, unlike a lot of goody-two-shoes companies, at least the VF has the right idea:

“Vestergaard is just different from other companies we work with,” said Kevin Starace, malaria adviser for the United Nations Foundation. “They think of the end user as a consumer rather than as a patient or a victim.”

If you are a member of the elite you have to always view the end user as a consumer, even if they are poor as dirt. How else will you convince them to give you their remaining dollars so you can do far better things with it htan they can? Unfortunately, that is where this “family-owned” venture stops short of being part of the elite.

While they’ve “made a profit,” they clearly don’t understand that you can produce a less effective product for  cheaper in China, and make far more profit. If some people get hurt, it won’t matter. They are too poor to afford lawyers and more would’ve likely died anyways without your product. You see, the benefit to selling to poor people is that they are usually already sick, dying or otherwise hobbled. If you save a few cents cutting corners here and there, no one will ever notice.

And since they aren’t part of the elite, if anyone gets hurt, it’s their own fault for being poor in the first place. If they didn’t want to be poor, they should go find some real work.

Perhaps they could work for me selling my crap to the poor?