{"id":1932775,"date":"2023-05-17T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/self-made-billionaire-has-brutal-message-for-younger-generation-theyll-never-make-it-unless-they-stop-watching-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:08:10","slug":"self-made-billionaire-has-brutal-message-for-younger-generation-theyll-never-make-it-unless-they-stop-watching-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/self-made-billionaire-has-brutal-message-for-younger-generation-theyll-never-make-it-unless-they-stop-watching-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Made Billionaire Has Brutal Message for Younger Generation: They&#8217;ll Never Make It Unless They Stop Watching TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fself-made-billionaire-has-brutal-message-for-younger-generation-theyll-never-make-it-unless-they-stop-watching-tiktok%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932775&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>    Commentary   Self-Made Billionaire Has Brutal Message for Younger Generation: They&#8217;ll Never Make It Unless They Stop Watching TikTok     <\/p>\n<p>  \u00a0By Joe Saunders   \u00a0May 17, 2023 at 6:50am      This is a guy who should be delivering commencement addresses \u2014 with words young Americans might not want to hear but could actually use.<\/p>\n<p> While the president of the United States president might fill his speeches to students with hallucinations about \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d (for a black audience) and billionaire Oprah Winfrey can babble to graduates about all things woke, New York City business mogul and talk show host John Catsimatidis is offering a different take.<\/p>\n<p> And it\u2019s a better formula for success than anything the left will ever put on the market.<\/p>\n<p>  In an interview reported by the U.K.\u2019s Daily Mail on Sunday, Catsimatidis boiled down the secret to success in words that would have been all but universal to previous generations of Americans:<\/p>\n<p> Nothing comes without hard work.<\/p>\n<p>   \u201cThat\u2019s one of the problems we are having in our country these days,\u201d Catsimatidis told the Daily Mail. \u201cThe kids are busy playing TikTok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  \u2018Kids Are Busy Playing TikTok:\u2018 Billionaire John Catsimatidis Expresses Concern Over Gen Z\u2018s Work Ethic https:\/\/t.co\/i0THp5LCK2 via @BreitbartNews<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 John Catsimatidis (@JCats2013) May 17, 2023<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cThe harder you work, the easier it gets to win,\u201d he said. \u201cLook at people only working three days a week, and I\u2019ll show you failures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Do you think young people today are hard workers?<\/p>\n<p>     That\u2019s a message being lost on too many young Americans, who are being deluged with a world view of victimhood, railing at \u201cinjustice\u201d and spewing outrage against a country where almost anything\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n<p> Of course, older generations have been scolding the young about their work ethic ever since there have been older generations with younger ones to scold. (Socrates\u2019 famous words about the youth of his day in ancient Greece never go out of style.)<\/p>\n<p> But a 21st-century American twist is that it\u2019s older generations who are also providing the easiest way out for the generations to follow, with automatic excuses for failure (\u201cSystemic racism!\u201d \u201cMisogyny!\u201d \u201cClimate change!\u201d)\u00a0 and targets to blame (generally white, generally male and almost always conservative).<\/p>\n<p>  And the poison is being delivered 24\/7 on devices pretty much everyone \u2014 especially a younger person \u2014 has at hand.<\/p>\n<p> On Sunday, President Joe Biden went to Howard University in Washington, D.C., to deliver a commencement address long on progressive talking points and short on anything useful.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cThe most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy,\u201d Biden told grads at one of the country\u2019s premier historically black colleges and universities. It wasn\u2019t even close to being true, but it was applauded by a crowd that had just been given what it wanted to hear.<\/p>\n<p> (Biden neglected to mention that the last successful proponents of \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d were the members of his own party who mentored him in his early Senate days.)<\/p>\n<p>  Earlier in May, as Fox News reported, Winfrey used her time at Tennessee State University to tell the listeners at her alma mater they should devote their lives to the liberal causes of fighting climate change, ending supposedly systemic racism, pushing gun control and gay rights and battling a Supreme Court majority that follows the words of the Constitution. She somehow even managed to slide the Capitol incursion into it.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe live on a planet where there is more than enough wrong to keep you busy trying to make things right for the rest of your natural life,\u201d Oprah said.<\/p>\n<p> Yeah, well, first it might help to make something of yourself. Which is where Catsimatidis would come in \u2014 with a success story that virtually screams \u201cOnly in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Catsimatidis recounted the story of his life in a memoir published in February, \u201cHow Far Do You Want to Go: Lessons from a Common-Sense Billionaire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  As the Daily Mail reported, Catsimatidis\u2019 family came to the United States from Greece in 1948, when he was only 6 months old.<\/p>\n<p> He told the outlet his business career got started after he graduated high school, thanks to a mother who \u201cthrew me off the couch\u201d and sent him out to find work.<\/p>\n<p> Catsimatidis started putting in 70-hour weeks at a supermarket, he told the Daily Mail, the beginning of a career that would make him now, at age 74, a true American success story. He has amassed about $4 billion and is the owner of the New York-based supermarket chain Gristedes and the Red Apple Group, a diversified conglomerate that ranges from retail stores to real estate.<\/p>\n<p> Can anyone guess where he leans politically? He\u2019s a Republican who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for New York mayor in 2013. He\u2019s also a pragmatic enough businessman that he\u2019s donated to both parties, according to the Washington Examiner, but has said he is willing to put up considerable money for pretty much any Republican who wins the nomination to get Biden out of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>  Catsimatidis\u2019 weekly radio show, \u201cThe Cat\u2019s Roundtable,\u201d is an influential voice that draws top names on the right \u2014 such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and columnist and political strategist Dick Morris.<\/p>\n<p> Politics alone, unfortunately, would likely disqualify Catsimatidis from serious consideration as a source of advice by American leftists, but there\u2019s no denying he is an example young Americans could do well by following.<\/p>\n<p> They could do a lot worse, too \u2014 say, by registering and voting as Democrats and joining the party that\u2019s devoted to the country\u2019s disgraceful abdication of responsibility for both world leadership and the wealth and welfare of its own people. (Inviting countless millions of illegal immigrants to cross the southern border, for one thing, is an insult to the idea of world leadership and injury to the health and welfare of Americans already here.)<\/p>\n<p> But the first thing they need to do, as Catsimatidis put it to the Daily Mail, is get their heads out of TikTok \u2014 and their smartphones in general \u2014 and start putting in the work in life that\u2019s necessary for success.<\/p>\n<p>  That\u2019s a commencement speech most parents would be ecstatic to hear. And one a modern liberal will never give.<\/p>\n<p>   SummaryMore Biographical InformationRecent PostsContact<\/p>\n<p> Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro desk editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He&#8217;s been with Liftable Media since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>   Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He&#8217;s been with Liftable Media since 2015. Largely a product of Catholic schools, who discovered Ayn Rand in college, Joe is a lifelong newspaperman who learned enough about the trade to be skeptical of every word ever written. He was also lucky enough to have a job that didn&#8217;t need a printing press to do it. <\/p>\n<p> Birthplace <\/p>\n<p> Philadelphia <\/p>\n<p> Nationality <\/p>\n<p> American <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary Self-Made Billionaire Has Brutal Message for Younger Generation: They&#8217;ll Never Make It Unless They Stop Watching TikTok \u00a0By Joe Saunders \u00a0May 17, 2023 at 6:50am This is a guy who should be delivering commencement addresses \u2014 with words young Americans might not want to hear but could actually use. 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