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  I vote we eat this guy first.
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…. >
  
  "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!" >
  
  Who gives a shit. Over half of my productivity shouldn't go to you. Period. >
  
  My grill is warming up!! >
  
  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? >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  "The billionaire has expressed skepticism about higher taxes on the wealthy in the past, even arguing last year that some inequality is a necessary aspect of a free market economy"
  Apparently, after saying how tough it was living through the depression, he's all for everything that made the depression happen.
  Let's see, the most recent things that say things aren't better:
  Health? The first health insurance company was a non-profit. Quite affordable, even under the wages locals made back then. This was just prior to the depression: a time when some people still paid their doctor bill in chickens. Imagine offering your doctor some hens for your annual check-up today? When I was born in 1957, my parents didn't have health insurance. I cost then ~$200. 2 decades later, WITH health insurance, my daughter's birth cost me $500 out of pocket.
  Housing? In 1950, when minimum wage was $1/hr, one such worker could rent a small apartment for ~$25/month.  Today, when it's remained stagnant for more than a dozen years, a single person can't afford an apartment, and, thanks to JP Morgan's recent announcement of buying up properties so they can charge high rents, look at slumbering to become a fortune 500 company. And, speaking of that, let's look at Munger's cash cow: Mobile home communities.  John Oliver discusses this in his  segment on mobile homes and guess who one of the key players in driving those costs up are? Berkshire-Hathaway. Guess who's a wheel in that organization? Could it be . . . [Dramatic pause] Charlie Munger? 
  Things may be 5 times easier for Charli Munger, but you know he didn't get there by luck, but taking advantage of desperate people in desperate situations. >
  
  
  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. >
  
  Another billionaire lecturing everyone from the safety of his bubble. >
  
  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. >
  
  Ya … if you’re a billionaire. You’re much better off in that case. >
  
  He definitely ain't talking to me. >
  
  You know if you look at a really bad time, we’re way better off, be grateful you poors. >
  
  Stop complaining. Just be rich. Everything is going great for me. I don’t understand what the problem is. >
  
  Says the man who's a billion times better off. >
  
  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. >
  
  “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” >
  
  5 times 0 is still 0. >
  
  All billionaires are a policy failure. >
  
  "They should be thankful we pay them at all!" - that billionaire in private probably >
  
  “How DARE you want things to be better” says the man with a severe disconnect for what reality is >
  
  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. >
  
  I really don't give even the smallest of fucks what some decrepit wealth hoarder thinks. >
  
  Can we just eat all the billionaires finally? >
  
  Can we eat these mother fuckers yet? >
  
  I truly believe that if some magical event happened and all our currency became worthless, 99.99% of bi/millionaires would die of hunger without being able to recover a single penny, these fuckers have some mental problem. >
  
  I really don’t think he considers people outside his financial league at all. He definitely would not speak for them. 
  He’s most likely speaking to assuage his own people. They have become used to an unprecedented tilt in their favor shown as non-stop upward-sloping green squiggly line on the stock market since the Obama Administration (maybe even before- they have been ahead for quite some time now). I’ve noticed a lot of sloped-downward red squiggly lines on stock market reports over the last several months which could be viewed as frustrating to his people-making them prone to complain. I know the current levels, even though they decline and fluctuate a bit are still very elevated overall.
  The downward trends are due to many reasons, I am sure but I wonder if one of the reasons might be recent foreign turmoil and various countries responses that are affecting their long-established diversification profiles depending on the weight of their investments in various foreign markets. For now it’s all scatter and some loss with maybe a little gain here and there but eventually the investor-pirates will sort it all out for themselves as they always seem to bob mast-skyward. >
  
  He said from his private plane over the Maldives. >
  
  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. >
  
  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 >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  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 afford to eat and pay rent. Imagine that world. >
  
  why not both? We can put his money to good use AND dick-punch him. >
  
  When can we eat this guy? >
  
  Housing is 5X more expensive than it used to be and I'm not even exaggerating. >
  
  I mean, he asked everyone at the country club and they all agreed. >
  
  The gap between $1 and $1 Billion is smaller than the gap between $5 and $5 Billion. Everyone is “5 times better off,” but the gap is even worse. >
  
  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 >
  
  This guy. Let's eat this guy first. >
  
  Compared to 1865? Then yes. Compared to 1980? Then no. >
  
  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 >
  
  eat the rich, munger first