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  Eat the rich
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. >
  
  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. >
  
  "Just because I'm 5 hundred thousand times better off, don't be jealous, be grateful for your 5 times, it's enough" - guy who rigged the system >
  
  What the general public and apparently Charlie Munger don’t understand is that while we are 5x richer than we used to be and far better off, the cost of core items has outpaced wages dramatically. 
  Healthcare, housing and education are suffering from cost disease. This makes people feel like they are poor even when when their income says they shouldn’t be. 
  THE RENT IS TOO DAMM HIGH. >
  
  Lmao, wtf does a billionaire know about how everybody lives? Anyone saying “bUt HeS rIgHt” prob hasn’t had to ever miss a meal or had the burden of medical debt cripple their finances. Owning billions doesn’t make you smart or savvy, just a fucking clown. >
  
  Compared to 1865? Then yes. Compared to 1980? Then no. >
  
  5 times 0 is still 0. >
  
  What surprises me the most, is that he went through the Great Depression. If someone should at least show empathy to people struggling, should be him.
  But, hey, guess it ain't his problem anymore!. Like the phrase goes, "If your neighbor loses his job, its bad news. If you lost your job, is a catastrophe" >
  
  He didn’t say anything about what he went through during the Great Depression. Some people were standing in line for bread, some people were still the 1%. Yeah, sure the 1% lost some capital and maybe had to fire some house staff (so they could stand in line for bread) but they did not experience the brunt of it AT ALL. Watching the economy crumble from your ivory castle does not mean you suffered through the Great Depression. >
  
  Definitely feels like some "We're all in this together" during covid by the uber wealthy who basically bribed countries to let them in so they can stay at their billion dollar mansions, while no one else was allowed in or out. And they isolated themselves away from us poors. >
  
  Just because we can buy products doesn't mean life is good. I don't care how big my tv is if I can't buy a home, go to school, and start a family. The things that make life worth living are unattainable and material products do not make up for that. >
  
  “As a billionaire white guy, and therefore part of a minority group, I can confidently speak to the life experiences of all other minority groups as well” >
  
  I was in better shape 3 years ago and the difference between then and now is not gas prices or commodity issues.. its a bunch of shitty companies buying up all the real estate and charging ridiculous prices for less for no reason unchecked to gouge the market for every penny. Shut up rich old white man. >
  
  It's not just companies buying up property. Zoning laws have been progressively pushing younger and poorer people out of nicer areas. Your life is harder because older people with money staked their claims and don't want to let you in >
  
  Straddled with debt but with a huge tv and an iPhone makes it worth it! /s >
  
  Could we please reach the tipping point where we eat these fuckers? Cause I'm tired. It is unbelievable that we let these folks just exist in society. Eat the parasites. >
  
  The real problem is the hundreds of millions of people who are totally okay with cruel, callous elites, but freak out at the thought of a black person not living in poverty. >
  
  Before the "STOP INJECTING RACE INTO EVERYTHING" crowd gets here.
  There were studies done, that asked people "Is welfare good for this country?".
  When a white person was shown a picture of a white person when the question was asked. It was overwhelming yes.
  When a white person was shown a picture of a black person when the question was asked. It was suddenly a small no.
  Every other race combination (black / black, black / white, asian / white, asian / black, etc) was within the margin of error.
  This isn't to say all white people are racist, or any other race isn't racist. This isn't to say that those people were even overtly racist. Just that we need to always keep in mind that race DOES play a role. It's measurable and has been documented. Trying to say it doesn't play a role, I have to assume you're taking it as a personal attack and then feeling like you have to play defense. >
  
  To be fair, anyone worth fewer than 7 figures doesn't qualify as human to this guy. >
  
  He's using MSM (and Reddit) logic. "Dollar number bigger that mean everyone doing gud"
  What he doesn't mention is the fact that we have "more dollars" yeah, maybe. But they are tradable for less and less "stuff". >
  
  Yet another person I look forward to outliving. >
  
  And this is why GDP isn't a valid measurement of how well people are doing in a country. >
  
  When can we eat this guy? >
  
  Somebody eat him >
  
  Imagine being this out of touch.
  People are working harder than ever before, working 3 jobs just to live paycheck to paycheck. Tell me, Charlie, how can you sympathise with people like that? 
  People are working themselves to death and you're telling them to "stop complaining"?
  I hope you're very short GME. >
  
  This guy. Let's eat this guy first. >
  
  If profits are expected to grow exponentially, then quality of life should also grow exponentially. >
  
  Eat the rich >
  
  The man lived through The Great Depression in Nebraska. I suppose his bar is forever glued to the floor. >
  
  “You’ll take these table scraps and you will enjoy them.” >
  
  in 30 years Americans have gone from having 0 guaranteed paid time off to 0 guaranteed paid time off. >
  
  I bet he tastes like chicken. >
  
  “How DARE you want things to be better” says the man with a severe disconnect for what reality is >
  
  I remember seeing a think tank piece about how millennial and the poor where whiney, stating how many more people now have a refrigerator, A/C, and a computer at home compared to 20 years ago. Like bro, the cost of those things have decreased mightily during that time frame and not having a computer now is akin to being out in the wilderness. These people are out of touch. Just because we aren't boiling our shoes for soup doesn't make everything great. >
  
  People have it better than in the Great Depression. Granted, I’ll give him that. But maybe we could set the bar just a bit higher. >
  
  back in the day some simple jobs paid really well and housing was affordable >
  
  Stop complaining. Just be rich. Everything is going great for me. I don’t understand what the problem is. >
  
  It's weird to tell me how I should feel about the "time I'm living in" when he's trying to compare it to nearly 100 years ago. >
  
  Do you know those horrible shows where they would document some old lady whose house was filled with newspapers taking up all the space, or a guy who couldn't stop eating glass?
  Billionaires are the same. They're mentally ill people. Every single one of them. Too many people idolize these sick individuals because having lots of stuff is somehow a trait they value.
  In every other animal species where individuals hoard at the detriment of others, they end up being killed. Stop celebrating these fucks. >
  
  
  The 98-year-old noted that he came of age in the 1930s, when Americans everywhere were struggling: “It’s weird for somebody my age, because I was in the middle of the Great Depression when the hardship was unbelievable.”
  
  A grandson of a district court judge and state representative and son of a lawyer who was  15 at the outset of WWII knows the "unbelievable hardship" of the Great Depression?
  Eat the rich. >
  
  I really don't give even the smallest of fucks what some decrepit wealth hoarder thinks. >
  
  It's about time these people were dragged through the streets >
  
  Says the guy wearing his rose tinted glass from atop his ivory tower >
  
  Read the room, dude. >
  
  Complainer complains about complainers. Guess money can't buy self awareness. >
  
  To all the people bitching about “i WaNt A LiVaBLe WaGe” and “i WaNt a HoUsE” 🙄… have you even tried to just be a billionaire? It’s like 1000 times better than being a millionaire >
  
  Can we just eat all the billionaires finally? >
  
  Let's eat him! >
  
  eat the rich, munger first