Candice Patton & Emily Bett Rickards: Cartier boss with $7.5bn fortune says prospect of the poor rising up ‘keeps him awake at night’

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Says he is concerned about robots creating ‘structural unemployment’

The multi-billionaire owner of luxury jewellery company Cartier has revealed his greatest fear – robots replacing workers and the poor rising up to bring down the rich.

Speaking at the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit in Monaco (obviously), the fashion tycoon told his fellow elite that he can’t sleep at the thought of the social upheaval he thinks is imminent.

According to Bloomberg, Johann Rupert told the conference to bear in mind that when the poor rise up, the middle classes won’t want to buy luxury goods for fear of exposing their wealth.

Johann Rupert, chair of Compagnie Financiere Richemont

He said he had been reading about changes in labour technology, as well as recent Oxfam figures suggesting the top 1 per cent of the global population now owns more wealth than the other 99 per cent.

“How is society going to cope with structural unemployment and the envy, hatred and the social warfare?” he said. “We are destroying the middle classes at this stage and it will affect us. It’s unfair. So that’s what keeps me awake at night.”

South African Rupert was estimated by Bloomberg to have amassed a fortune of around $7.5 billion from brands including Cartier, Chloe and Vacheron Constantin.

He returned to his chairman role at Compagnie Financiere Richemont in September 2014 after a one-year sabbatical which, according to Forbes, he spent reading and fly-fishing. And, it seems, contemplating a global social revolution.

Candice Patton & Emily Bett Rickards: Johann Rupert’s concern could be legit because they just witnessed this shit in the so called “Land of the Free”…

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Candice Patton

Raised in Plano, Texas, Candice continued her childhood dream of becoming an actress by attending Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.F.A in Theatre. It was here that she was scouted by The Young and the Restless for a CBS Soap Star Contest and flew out to Los Angeles to briefly join the cast. Candice finished her college education at SMU and moved to Los Angeles shortly after.

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[Candice Patton] Sweetie, of course you can talk to me. What is it, babe? Mommys here! I’m listening, sweet pea. Just tell me everything thats been bothering you. You’ve been so strong holding it all in… time to let it out, babe. You can always come to Mommy~
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Emily Bett Rickards

Date of Birth 24 July 1991, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Height 5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
Canadian actress Emily Bett Rickards was born July 24, 1991. She attended film school after graduating high school, and also attended Alida Vocal Studio. She is known for roles such as Felicity Smoak on the CW network’s Arrow, and Lauren Phillips in Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story.