True Dat du Jour

Matt Yglesias on the hypocrisy of "conservatives'" hard work/bootstraps nonsense:

But this equation assumes that morally speaking what matters is the hard work, the discipline, and the prudence. Cutting corners, lying, cheating, or stealing to make a quick buck doesn’t fit the bill. Earning a multi-million dollar salary to deliver below-average performance as the CEO of a firm and then take a multi-million dollar golden parachute when you get sacked doesn’t fit the bill....A well-designed welfare state is an excellent thing to have, but to have a culture that valorizes hard work you need to actually valorize hard work not just money-making.

He rather generously doesn't include the large number of millionaires who did even less than any of those  examples and simply inherited their wealth - or, as this jerkoff calls it, earning it the old-fashioned way.