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  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.
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.