What It’s Like Being a Billionaire’s Personal Assistant. “You have to have thick skin. You’re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you have to have incredible patience. You’re working for people who are not used to hearing no.”
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What It’s Like Being a Billionaire’s Personal Assistant. “You have to have thick skin. You’re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you have to have incredible patience. You’re working for people who are not used to hearing no.”
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Not so sure this applies to all zillionaires or to the worse ones.
Or is the underlying idea that there are no good ones?
(signed) Confused
Whether they're good or bad people doesn't come into it. They're a symptom of economic dysfunction and corruption. No individual should be able to accumulate so much wealth and power.
This article intrigued me. I would never have seen it otherwise; thank you for posting a link to it, Jason
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