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For the past few weeks, Gina Rinehart has been making waves in the media, grabbing headlines and angering people on all corners of the Earth with her blunt views on bettering the Australian economy. No she's not a politician, nor is she a development wonk, she's just filthy stinking rich and damn good at trolling.

"Africans want to work. Its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day," she was quoted as saying today in what the BBC calls a "rare public appearance" (video below). "We must be realistic, not just promote class warfare ... Indeed, if we competed at the Olympic games as sluggishly as we compete economically, there would be an outcry," the mutlibillionaire added.

Rinehart, an Australian, was (we think) trying to make a point about wages and bettering Australia's mining industry. Why she chose to say that Australians should look at the sad state of African miners making less than $2 per day is beyond us. And today's rant comes just one week after Rinehart wrote in an industry magazine that "there is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire." She added there:

If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself -- spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.

Yeah. There are so many layers to that (that there are rich people who are rich and famous for their socializing, that not smoking or drinking doesn't necessarily spell success, etc.) which we can't even bother to get into. And she did not stop:

"The millionaires and billionaires who choose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young," she said. "This secret needs to be spread widely.

So, there's that. But you may be asking yourself who exactly Ms. Rinehart is, and why is she allowed to speak so often with so much coverage. That's where we come in. Here's what we know of the Internet's newest troll: