Just when I thought the 1% couldn't get more despicable:

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/disney_world_srich_kid_outrage_zTBA0xrvZRkIVc1zItXGDP

Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they and their kids can jump to the front, The Post has learned. The "black-market Disney guides" run $130 an hour, or $1,040 for an eight-hour day.

"My daughter waited one minute to get on 'It's a Small World' — the other kids had to wait 2 1/2 hours," crowed one mom, who hired a disabled guide through Dream Tours Florida.

I mean, the paper is tabloid schlock, but the story seems legit.

[The Johnny]

On principle it's bad to use people in such way; on the other hand, they get to get paid to go to Disneyland.

If they are treated with respect and manage to have a good time, it might be a net-plus for them... the problem is that these sorts of things rarely manage to do that. 

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I was all good with disabled people making $130 an hour that they don't have to report to Social Security, then I saw they were hired through an agency, which probably keeps MOST of it.

Anyway, I imagine hanging around snotty rich people and their bratty spawn at Disneyland day after day is difficult. I wouldn't want to do it.

[The Johnny]

I was all good with disabled people making $130 an hour that they don't have to report to Social Security, then I saw they were hired through an agency, which probably keeps MOST of it.

Oh.

I apologize for not reading the article before commenting, but yeah, once it gets established into an agency the outcomes are far more grim.

On a side note, that anthropologist is cute.

[The Johnny]

Now, one thing that does bother me about how the news is covered is that:

"People with disabilities" are USED, also, in the article, as a tool of 1% shaming... the news is centered around the acts of the 1% rather than on the potential abuse that is happening to "people with disabilities".

The 1%ers are USING the "people with disabilities" to get thru waiting lines; the NYPost is USING "people with disabilities" to get more readers that hate the 1%.

I'm disgusted by both of them, because these people are just objects/tools for others to use at their convenience and their human side is ignored or glossed over.

[Junkenstein]

"You can't go to Disney without a tour concierge,'' she sniffed. "This is how the 1 percent does Disney."

Something about that sets my bullshit alarm off. I think it may be due to the story crossing into Onion territory that's fucking it up.

[Faust]

I don't understand what people see wrong here, every part of that story would make "Bob" proud.

[Eater of Clowns]

I wonder if the article had been framed in a "Enterprising People with Disabilities Bilk Rich Idiots at Disney" way how different initial reaction to it would be.

[Faust]

Capitalism helps aid disabled people, entrepreneurship of disabled leads to beneficial and fun time for all.

[Suu]

You can buy Fast Passes to move ahead in lines, and they're cheaper than strangers in wheelchairs.

Bullshit alarm.

[Junkenstein]

Surely the responsible thing to do now is for a group of disabled people (Looking at you, veterans of various wars) to start doing this themselves directly.

I have a vision of rows of wheelchairs just outside the Disneyland borders. Signs held up with "Will ride attractions for food"

The savvy will market themselves as "Good with Children" This is an industry in the making.

[LMNO]

The very rich use the disabled to flaunt their privilege and cut in front of all the schmucks waiting in line who don't have enough money to buy a cripple.

[Faust]

All set on the stage of the fibreglass atrocity exhibition that is "The happiest place on earth"

[Eater of Clowns]

The very rich use the disabled to flaunt their privilege and cut in front of all the schmucks waiting in line who don't have enough money to buy a cripple.

Oh yeah, it's still disgusting, but as Johnny pointed out, framing it in a way that the rich use people with disabilities gives them the power.  If the article, and the public, try to change their outlook using shame it won't work - these are very obviously people who don't have any.  But if you frame the situation in such a way that power is given to the people they hired, and mockery of the rich folks' idiocy is the tool used, it sends a much better message.

[LMNO]

What about, "The rich exploit the poor to get one over on the middle class."