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  Any person who has an abundance of money, and has this sort of opinion should be forced to star in a reality TV show where they have to survive off of minium wage. If, by the end of the season, they are in debt, or can't make ends meet, they lose.
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! >
  
  34! I've never bought a brand new car though. >
  
  I did this a year ago at 40 (bought a 2022 Nissan Leaf) , but for practical reasons my husband now drives it. 😭 >
  
  The poor arent ungrateful that their lives aren't more comfortable, they are mad that social conditions mean they have to work harder for even less thus cannot exit the poverty trap. 
  It's like saying people should be grateful to be prisoners today because prisoners used to live in crowded cells with no running water and a bucket for a toilet, instead of being mad that they are in prison for life for something that used to be a 1 year max prison sentence. >
  
  
  social conditions
  
  It's not even social conditions, things like basic housing are more unaffordable now than they have been in the last century. >
  
  I'd call that a social condition. >
  
  The dude is 98 years old and was alive during the great depression. Sure, we are in better shape today compared to the 1930s, but that's not saying much since most of us weren't alive in the 1930s >
  
  This dude should get to experience his own utopia.
  Take his wealth and give him the wonderful average lifestyle he trumpets.
  It's 5x better off than it used to be! I can't imagine he would expect any more than that. >
  
  Sure, he doesn't LOOK tasty, but trust me... >
  
  He is Veal in spectacles. >
  
  Soft hands, soft haunches--that's what I always say. >
  
  "the economy's fine" says the billionaire 
  "the sun's not that hot" says earth to mercury >
  
  Rich guy with more money then the next 100,000,000 people combined says other people have enough. 
  You can't make this stuff up. >
  
  This is the asshole that designed a windowless prison for a giant dorm at UCSB, he was going to donate the money for it but only if his ridiculous amateur design was used. So now UCSB has to waste a ton of money proving that a windowless warren is a safety issue and bad for humans, when, duh we already knew that.
  Fuck Charlie Munger and his mom-reality-based opinions about what normal humans are, do, need, or can endure. >
  
  
  he was going to donate the money for it but only if his ridiculous amateur design was used
  
  Minor correction: he was going to donate like, 20% of the funding for it, the remainder of which was more than enough to have just built real dorms instead. >
  
  Isn't this the idiot who designed a dormitory building without windows, and made a donation to UC Santa Barbara contingent on them using his design despite the fact that he isn't an architect and experts have advised that the building would be unsafe? >
  
  "Hey look, I'm not literally chaining people to plows and eating the tender flesh of their children. But do I hear a single thank you from these ungrateful poors? No! I have to PAY people to thank me for not treating them like cattle!" >
  
  We can’t afford to buy homes or childcare. So we’re supposed to rent forever and one parent (if you have 2 in the home) has to stay home or work night shift bc childcare is $1400 a week. So we sacrifice an entire salary while thousands a month goes to student loans. How is this better? This feels impossible some times. >
  
  My grill is warming up!! >
  
  1910 vs 2010 . Yeah much much better >
  
  Well Chuck, back in your day people like you were taxed at 90%. See you stop complaining then >
  
  I know you work your life away and will only receive a fraction of your labor's fruit, paying for the luxurious lives of the 1%, but have you considered that Rockefeller didn't have a microwave or LED TV? >
  
  Daddy was a lawyer and grand dad was a US judge tell me how you had it rough back in the day fuckface…. >
  
  It's like telling a rape victim, "You're so ungrateful. At least you're not dead." >
  
  There was a thread once on incel forums that said "rape is not that bad" so you arent far off >
  
  You should be GRATEFUL you have to work 3 jobs just to make ends meet. Bunch of babies honestly. 
  
  billionaire with daddy's money. 
  
  What a twat. >
  
  as a teenager, he worked at a shop of a certain Buffett, grandfather of another certain Buffett. I am pretty sure he is such a self-made man, I mean he worked as a teenager! >
  
  Counterpoint: No. We're not. Wages are worth less than they were in the 70s. Minimum wage hasn't increased in most red states (since they just follow federal guidelines).   
  Minimum wage is 5x what it was...in 1967. However, adjusted for inflation, that $1.40 in 1967 is the equivalent of $12.48 now. Nearly twice the actual minimum wage. >
  
  Renting has become unaffordable for so many, not to mention actually owning property, and all of these factors help contribute to the current baby-bust. Millennials as a generation can't afford to have children, even as the oldest ones are turning 40. We've dealt with multiple economic crises and a pandemic, 50ish years of inflation outpacing stagnating wages, despite massive increases in productivity, but I guess we should just listen to the billionaire and suck it up, because things are great for investors. >
  
  A guy with no degree who got into Harvard from a phone call from daddy’s friend. 
  So why don’t we just take their shit? >
  
  Ya … if you’re a billionaire. You’re much better off in that case. >
  
  He definitely ain't talking to me. >
  
  Chances are you actually are better off than people in the Great Depression. Are you eating potatoes and bone broth every meal? You're doing better.
  However, it's your right to want more than just "better" - we should be driving for everyone to be doing well. >
  
  He said from his private plane over the Maldives. >
  
  Says the man who's a billion times better off. >
  
  Another billionaire lecturing everyone from the safety of his bubble. >
  
  You know if you look at a really bad time, we’re way better off, be grateful you poors. >
  
  12.000 years ago there was a lot more space to roam around. There was also way less pollution. Not everything is better now ;) >
  
  I mean... Globally we are better off when we were 100 years ago.
  But we (the bottom 90%) have been on a slide going down, increasingly stepper for like... What? 2 decades? >
  
  Um 4 decades. Think back to Thacher & Reagan. That’s where this started. >
  
  Dude needs a solid dick punch. >
  
  Screw the physical violence. Let's commit some financial vengeance. 90% tax on the billionaires like the old days. Lets take that money and put it to good use building our cities, towns, farms and schools into what they should be. 
  I'm talking good clean drinking water for every community, actual bonafede clean power. Honest to god new class rooms with well paid teachers who can affod to eat and pay rent. Imagine that world. >
  
  why not both? We can put his money to good use AND dick-punch him. >
  
  Who gives a shit. Over half of my productivity shouldn't go to you. Period. >
  
  Time for guillotines >
  
  All billionaires are a policy failure. >
  
  "They should be thankful we pay them at all!" - that billionaire in private probably >
  
  I mean, he asked everyone at the country club and they all agreed.