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Fox’s Tucker Carlson: Poor people get ‘consumed with envy’ of the 1 percent
By David Edwards
Sunday, February 2, 2014 9:54 EST

The host of ABC’s reality show Shark Tank over the weekend told the poor people of the world that they should be thanking capitalism for making their situation better.

After Oxfam found that the world’s 85 richest people had a as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people, Kevin O’Leary had applauded the report as “fantastic news.”

“This is a great thing because it inspires everybody, and gets them the motivation to look up to the 1 per cent and say, I want to become one of those people. I’m going to fight hard and get up to the top,” he said on a Canadian news program.

On Sunday, O’Leary insisted to Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he did not think that income disparity was a good thing, but defended his comments.