In the realm of wise investors and business moguls, Charlie Munger, the billionaire business partner of Warren Buffett, is a source of valuable advice. His interests span wide, but they all converge on a singular focus: the pursuit of wealth, happiness and the avoidance of making dumb mistakes. During the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. annual meeting, Buffett expressed his desire to be born in the present day, considering it a superior world compared to any before. He acknowledged that modern comm

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Breaking story: Yet another rich asshole that has everything is telling you that you should be happy with having next to nothing.

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We need to build more Titanic submarines.

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He’s not wrong, he’s just an asshole.

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He’s both wrong and an asshole. “Shifting expectations” to something more sustainable would have to mean that there was a sustainable option to begin with.

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“And by ‘we’ I of course mean ‘you’.”

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I will start expecting less right after he starts accepting less.

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Instead of ripping that billionaire asunder in the streets and eating his heart while it is raw and still pumping i am willing for him to pay 95% tax rate.

that is the toughness that i am willing: to abate my cannibalistic desire to devour the beating hearts of billionaires.

Tax that shitheel.

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Maybe he can then follow his own advice, everyone wins!

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compromise: 100% tax and we only eat half his heart

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What heart? It’s charlie munger. There is no heart in there.

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I sometimes wonder if, when aliens eventually find us, they’ll read shit like this and take it literally. Will we forever be known as space cannibals? Space orks, perhaps?

I agree with you though. I am told to eat heart meat, you have to boil it for a long time to get it nice and tender and eat it with a strong sauce to counteract the blandness. I’d eat it with a steak sauce, perhaps boil some carrots and potatoes in with it. Boil it in a nice pot of rich asshole stock. AAPL flavored, perhaps

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Billionaires talking about expecting less is peak irony.

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He also tried to design a windowless mega-dorm as a weird social experiment of sorts. All around great guy

In his October 25 resignation letter to UCSB Campus Architect Julie Hendricks, Dennis McFadden ― a well-respected Southern California architect with 15 years on the committee ― goes scorched earth on the radical new building concept, which calls for an 11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms.

The idea was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly. Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas, where they could interact and collaborate.

https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-protest-over-ucsb-mega-dorm/

Thankfully it did not get approved.

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with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly

As a draftsman, lol.

First of all, it’s obvious he has no idea what he’s doing with his use of the word “blueprint”. They haven’t been blue for like 40 years. Second of all, there is always an engineer to translate the fever dream of the architect to something that won’t collapse when it’s built. Nobody follows the architect’s prints “exactly”, and a big part of the reason is the architect just designs the building, they are less involved with the nuts and bolts level of assembling the building. There are drawings for all sorts of fiddly things that end up in the final drawings for a building.

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@Sami @fuckReddit Bro, don’t ya know how cheap it is to build without including windows? Massive money saver!

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A podcast that covered the topic said that the plan was more expensive per student that what the state’s existing housing designs cost to build. Also, his donation only covered like 20% of costs.

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@Sami ffs Billionaires are absolutely useless 😂😂😂

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