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  "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!"
context: 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 >
  
  "Charles Thomas Munger (born January 1, 1924) is an American billionaire investor, businessman, and former real estate attorney. He is vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by Warren Buffett; Buffett has described Munger as his closest partner and right-hand man."
  I'm beginning to think that even the great philanthropist Warren Buffett is a touch removed from reality. ^(/s) >
  
  Colbert had this beautiful joke in his monologue when Wilbur Ross made a huge out of touch comment when government employees were visiting food banks during a shut down - "What ? I don't understand?  Can you not buy a hamburger sandwich for a nickel and still have a ha'penny left over for the talkies?"  Immediately thought of it when i saw the picture of Munger. >
  
  His unintentional comment makes it even worse than it already is.
  The fact that he thought a hamburger is a nickel ($0.05 for those not in the US) makes his fortune (est. $600 million) even more obscene, because he's off by a factor of approximately 60. And this guy was the US Secretary of Commerce, who really should know the price of tea in the US (to mangle a common saying).
  Our government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. Instead, it's mostly of billionaire puppets, by billionaires, for billionaires. >
  
  I think you misunderstood his comment, as out of touch as Wilbur Ross is, he never made a comment thinking you could buy a burger for a nickel, that was Colbert making a joke about something Ross said about the cost of a can of soup, which was still outrageously out of touch. >
  
  Wilbur Ross said the can of soup cost $1.99. >
  
  That doesn't sound so off to me? Whati is it, more commonly? >
  
  Colbert was taking a characterization of him being an old out of touch rich guy and exaggerating it. I don't think the joke was about inaccuracy in prices. I think it's about mocking a billionaire trying to justify his absurdly disproportionate wealth by arguing the poor can afford a single meal. >
  
  TL/DR - sabre-tooth tigers used to eat people so we shouldn't tax the wealthy or raise the minimum wage. >
  
  "Y'all aren't serfs, slaves or indentured servants anymore, so why are we taxing the wealthy?" >
  
  With how much debt student loans, medical debt, and other forms of debt in America are it's not really that much different than an indentured servant. >
  
  If you're in prison you're pretty much a slave, especially since that's a loophole in the 13th amendment >
  
  The key thing some people do forget is that many prisons are requiring mandatory labor and pay them pennies if at all plus also charge exorbitant prices to use the phone or buy food at the commissary. Most people with even more debt just going to prison than when they started. This should be unconstitutional >
  
  “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. >
  
  If you’re Elon Musk you can just make up your entire undergraduate degree. >
  
  I've yet to see a degree of his that is a) not honorary b).  Not have some ambiguity. >
  
  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. >
  
  Could you define what mom-reality-based opinion is? Thanks >
  
  Non-reality based. Typooooo >
  
  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. >
  
  Like a lot of Mike Judges writing…a lot of what makes its great is due to the fact that he’s pulling from reality >
  
  "Computers don't make errors. What they do, they do on purpose. By now, your name and particulars have been fed into every laptop, desktop, mainframe and supermarket scanner that collectively make up the global information conspiracy otherwise known as The Beast"- Dale Gribble >
  
  One of the only things I want a continuation of King of the Hill for is progressively more unhinged and conspiratorial minded Dale posts contrasted with him still being a good father somehow. >
  
  Dale came from a time when conspiracy theories were "Fun".
  "Who shot JFK?" "Is Bigfoot Real?" "Is Hillary Clinton having an Alien Baby?"
  Just look at the scene in Men in Black when they go "Check the Papers" and the headlines are all fantastical conspiracy theories.
  It sucks that Conspiracy Theories have been honed into a weapon used against people's minds. >
  
  You could probably make weaponized conspiracy theories fun again by creating a Twitter account or blog and posting them as if you are the actual Dale Gribble sharing the 411 to the masses of sheeple on the interwebs. >
  
  You see the issue with that is there's a small subset that will run with what you're saying as real and develop there own theories based on it. For example flat earthers which I assume started as a joke. >
  
  To this day I refuse to believe flats aren't just very, very dry humorists >
  
  It's either that, or they're trying to spread philosophical skepticism in the dumbest way imaginable. >
  
  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? >
  
  Because the police will kill you without hesitation because the police only protect the rich and their property >
  
  Why don't you take their shit too. >
  
  Now we’re getting somewhere… >
  
  I didn't know the word "everybody" had such a narrow meaning. >
  
  What? It encompasses everybody he considers fully human. >
  
  He doesn't consider us to be truly alive, so it's not murder if he kills us >
  
  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. >
  
  Or the dragon burninates the peasants and their thatched roof cottages. >
  
  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. >
  
  It's a material condition. >
  
  But one that affects all of society, therefore societal, but I get your point, its not a social issue like LGBT acceptance. >
  
  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 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 >
  
  Plus he's so far removed from it himself that he really has no room to talk about it either. He's fucking 98 and living better than the vast majority of the world and has been. 
  That's like me saying I know what it's like not to walk bc I was a baby once. >
  
  Good point. >
  
  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. >
  
  1910 vs 2010 . Yeah much much better >
  
  He was born like 20 Years later than that, he was 15 at the end of the depression and then a bit later attended Harvard. >
  
  "the economy's fine" says the billionaire 
  "the sun's not that hot" says earth to mercury >
  
  Sure, he doesn't LOOK tasty, but trust me... >
  
  We can waste food just this once >
  
  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? >
  
  He didn’t even donate enough money to build the thing, IIRC. Not even a significant portion to warrant building the monstrosity. >
  
  Daddy was a lawyer and grand dad was a US judge tell me how you had it rough back in the day fuckface….