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  34! I've never bought a brand new car though.
context: And in 1930 y'all had it better than those in 1390. But you still complained then, didn't you? It's not wrong to chime in when shit isn't right across the board. >
  
  It reminds me of how the writers in Silicon Valley got most of their hilariously out-of-touch lines from fictional CEOs by borrowing crazy out of touch shit actual CEOs say. >
  
  I’m reminded of the survey of Ivy League undergrads on legacy admission who were asked what the average wage earner in America brings home in a year and the low end of their estimations was $400,000. >
  
  Had a college roommate fit this category, who insisted me and our other fellow roommates all get matching embroidered pillows of our home cities since we came from all over. She had one from NYC that we all admired. We looked them up online and they were $250 each. I was working part time as a janitor and she didn’t see anything wrong with asking me to pay $250 for a decorative pillow to fit in. >
  
  Reminds me of my ex who expected both of us to make 300k through part time work (in a MCOL city too) >
  
  Sound’s reasonable after binge watching House Hunters. >
  
  "My husband is an inner city elementary school teacher and I'm an underwater basket weaver, our budget is $37m" >
  
  “I photograph potatoes and my wife is an amateur life coach. Our budget is $8 million” >
  
  “ I race snails and my wife writes poetry for squirrels. We’re looking for something in the 18-20m range”. >
  
  Says the man with a personal vanity project to make college students live in a windowless shoebox. >
  
  That's where I know that name from >
  
  damn look at this smarmy doughy face. it's been around since the early days of american political cartoons, totally unchanged lol >
  
  I’m never one to promote violence, and especially not against the elderly. But that dude has one seriously punchable face. Couple it with that quote and I’d even put some real weight behind it. >
  
  He turns 99 years old next week. I think you could just poke him with your finger and he'd have a 50/50 chance of surviving. >
  
  Don’t you also find it a little odd that he hasn’t gotten a little sympathy and empathy in those 99 years for those who have less financial means than him? Kind of a sad way to go out >
  
  It's the only way he knows, and our system awards massive honor and success to people who think like that, so that only serves to reinforce his terrible beliefs. >
  
  “It’s weird for somebody my age, because I was in the middle of the Great Depression when the hardship was unbelievable.”
  It’s hard to complete against “back in my day” >
  
  His dad was a lawyer and his grandfather a politician. Something tells me his upbringing was a little more stable than most people during those "hard times" >
  
  Born into a rich family and got into law school due to those connections, even though he didn't have a degree. From wikipedia:
  
  When he applied to his father's alma mater, Harvard Law School, the dean of admissions rejected him because Munger had not completed an undergraduate degree. However, the dean relented after a call from Roscoe Pound, the former dean of Harvard Law and a Munger family friend. >
  
  What the fuck lol. I can’t believe that was even an option. >
  
  Everything's an option if you're rich enough. >
  
  Nowadays we have the ABA so you can’t go to any accredited law school without an undergraduate degree. So, a few more extra bribes I guess. >
  
  BA in Governing from University of Eastern Prussia? Seems legit. >
  
  TL/DR - sabre-tooth tigers used to eat people so we shouldn't tax the wealthy or raise the minimum wage. >
  
  his face has a wobbly melting filter 😂 >
  
  I didn't realize how fucking old he is. He was born in 1924. >
  
  So he's almost 99?! I guess when you grew up in the great depression and the dust bowl it would seem better these days... >
  
  And after all that, he's finally old enough to be the president of the United States! >
  
  I didn't know the word "everybody" had such a narrow meaning. >
  
  The average person is much better off than they were 60 years ago. But if we stop fighting just because it's better now, that means it won't continue to get better. >
  
  So then why not make him live as an average man and enjoy what the rest of us are experiencing?
  After all, he's got no right to complain. Think of how bad they used to have it! >
  
  everyone else: "Stop hoarding. Everybody's 5x more aware of how you fuckers shouldn't even exist." >
  
  Pardon my ignorance and I know im taking this too literally but if everyone is 5x better off, then aren’t we all where we used to be anyway since money would lose its value? >
  
  They aren't taking 5 times richer, or 5 times more money... And he's not really even talking a physical 5x improvement. He's saying that life in the past was worse than life is now by a substantial margin so stop complaining.
  Issue is the top 1% continues to amass wealth faster than the bottom 99%, and that is unsustainable. Hence the commentor Saying stop hoarding. Because billionaires are like fantasy dragons hoarding gold in a cave not spending it and keeping the economy flowing.
  Capitalism requiring consuming to work, and billionaires are not technically consuming enough for the amount of wealth they have. >
  
  And it’s an unfalsifiable statement anyway. It’s the kind of thing we’ll just spend hours arguing about and never have an answer for 
  The truth is if 99% of the country doesn’t like the bargain the 1% is giving us, for whatever reasons, our government is intended to give us the leverage to make it more equitable. Doesn’t matter if they think it’s unfair or everyone’s greedy - never mind that it costs them nothing to say and is in their best interest
  If we think we should be 20x better off instead of 5x, he can kick rocks >
  
  
  The truth is if 99% of the country doesn’t like the bargain the 1% is giving us, for whatever reasons, our government is intended to give us the leverage to make it more equitable.
  
  Exactly. The people should be able to order society however they want. When the greedy few at the very top are telling those at the bottom to be content with what they have, we're probably overdue for a revolution. >
  
  Guess what usually happens to dragons in fantasy stories. >
  
  They usually roll a high initiative and then start off with either a flyby attack or using Fire Breath: The Dragon exhales fire in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 21 Dexterity saving throw, taking 63 (18d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. >
  
  Translation - You peasants need to appreciate that you're better off than the peasants of just a few decades ago.
  SMDH >
  
  Except we're worse off. Ignore that fact. >
  
  Didn't happen for most of us >
  
  I bought a house at 30, and that felt like over achieving!