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Originally Posted by vanisleflamesfan
At any rate... I wasn't trying to be malicious. Perhaps go back an re-read what I said.
But I will be malicious now:
Tom Dundon wasn't a 'self-made man'. He inherited the money that he used to get started in business. And what's more, that business was a particularly despicable predatory sub-prime loans business. Tom then stepped down from the company (and took home over 780 million in 'friendly goodbye' money) right before the legal axe fell on his company.
Now this highly unethical businessman is going to own an NHL team and meddle with it because he feels that he knows more than life-long hockey people?
Tom Dundon is not a good person. We need fewer billionaires who make their money in the way that Dundon did. We need to stop deifying people like him and call them out for what they are.
Again, my original post was NOT malicious, nor did I call him out "because he has money" like some have suggested. I was calling out the attitude of people who have money because of particular advantages that had nothing to do with them other than luck, perpetuating the narrative that they are where they are because they are smarter than everyone else.
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You sound more jealous than anything else. You could say a Flames owner made his money raping the earth and ruining the environment.
Why not rant about him?