DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Meet Mizzou Protestor Jonathan Butler: Stealing, Misogyny, Crack Songs:
His disdain for low-income Americans is also apparent in another blog post, from July 2011, that was written about his visit to a Subway sandwich shop. Butler describes how he “stormed up to the counter inpatient [sic] and indecisive,” further detailing rude behavior to the worker. He describes watching the worker, “a grumpy older gentleman, about 70-75 years old,” making his sandwich.
“And at that moment as I was charging my phone and sitting down to my fast food meal,” Butler continues, “it dawned on me that I cannot live like this. I got upset at the world and in rage thoughts raced through my head of all the time I have wasted not investing my money and budgeting correctly because I cannot, I repeat cannot! End up like the older gentleman behind the counter working at Subway. I will not be old, grumpy, and working when I should be retired, relaxed and happy.”
That seems like a relatively safe bet: “Butler, who grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, is the son of a railroad executive whose compensation in 2014 was $8.4 million, according to regulatory filings.”
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