Comments on: Yay for rich white chicks!

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span(ner in the works) — Fri, 27 May 2005 16:19:00 +0000

so she is a success because a) her dad was dodgy and b) he died unexpectedly meaning his heir wasn’t liable in the way he would have been.

that’s a bit sick really.

i hate how people always think young activists are more interested in talking to other young activists than going to workshops on actual issues. i have lost count of the number of times the youth session at a conference has been put up against similar workshops to the ones you outlined. More young people needed in the planning methinks!

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Kakariki — Thu, 26 May 2005 23:37:00 +0000

Aah I see.

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Rich — Thu, 26 May 2005 21:42:00 +0000

That there were a bunch more deserving young women to give awards to, I would have thought.

Sounds like the conference is of the same ilk…

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Kakariki — Thu, 26 May 2005 19:01:00 +0000

I’m sorry, the point of that story was?

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Rich — Wed, 25 May 2005 18:42:00 +0000

This reminds me of a young woman in England.

What she did was this:
- Her father set up a massive fraud (on the billion dollar scale) involving dodgy computer leases
- He bought, amongst other things, a motor racetrack with the money
- Tragically, he was killed in a plane crash (before the fraud was found out)
- Following his death it all went predictably pear shaped
- By the wonders of limited liability, the daughter wound up owning the racetrack
- She was reasonably succesful at running it (remember - she got given it)
- And was made “Young businesswoman of the year”