'I ran the 80-pound jackhammer': Former governor Jesse Ventura slams US billiona...

Former WWF star and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura may be a wrestler, but when it comes to billionaires, he’s not pulling any punches.

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Earlier this spring, Ventura was at the Steel City Comic Con, where he launched a takedown fo the country’s richest, stating “there should not be one billionaire in America.”

Ventura then went on to state that “there is nobody that works hard enough to earn $1 billion.”

It might sound rich coming from a man with an estimated net worth of around $7 million, but his argument was simple: “The two jobs I did in my life that were physically the most demanding and mentally the most difficult … paid me the least amount of money.”

Whether you agree with Ventura or not, his rant raises an age-old question: Is it better to work harder or smarter? (And which will make you more money?)

Jesse Ventura’s colorful career

Ventura, 71, first found fame as a professional wrestler with the AWA and WWF, under the ring name “The Body.”

After a successful career providing color commentary on wrestling and landing some Hollywood movies roles, Ventura turned his attention to politics in the 1990s. He served a four-year stint as the mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, before becoming the 38th Governor of Minnesota, a position he held until 2003.

But it was neither Ventura’s wrestling, acting, nor political careers that took the most — physically or mentally — out of him.

Instead, that dubious honor goes to his first two jobs after high school. First, Ventura worked for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, where he “ran the 80-pound jackhammer” for just a “couple [of] bucks above minimum wage.”