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  1. We're trying to improving working conditions and pay.

  2. We're trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

  3. We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

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In the realm of wise investors and business moguls, Charlie Munger, the billionaire business partner of Warren Buffett, is a source of valuable advice. His interests span wide, but they all converge on a singular focus: the pursuit of wealth, happiness and the avoidance of making dumb mistakes. During the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. annual meeting, Buffett expressed his desire to be born in the present day, considering it a superior world compared to any before. He acknowledged that modern comm

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[–] stonedemoman@lemmy.world 121 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Breaking story: Yet another rich asshole that has everything is telling you that you should be happy with having next to nothing.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 years ago

We need to build more Titanic submarines.

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[–] Rottcodd@literature.cafe 109 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"And by 'we' I of course mean 'you'."

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

I will start expecting less right after he starts accepting less.

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 87 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Instead of ripping that billionaire asunder in the streets and eating his heart while it is raw and still pumping i am willing for him to pay 95% tax rate.

that is the toughness that i am willing: to abate my cannibalistic desire to devour the beating hearts of billionaires.

Tax that shitheel.

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[–] MinusPi@pawb.social 86 points 2 years ago

Billionaires talking about expecting less is peak irony.

[–] Sami@lemmy.zip 74 points 2 years ago (6 children)

He also tried to design a windowless mega-dorm as a weird social experiment of sorts. All around great guy

In his October 25 resignation letter to UCSB Campus Architect Julie Hendricks, Dennis McFadden ― a well-respected Southern California architect with 15 years on the committee ― goes scorched earth on the radical new building concept, which calls for an 11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms.

The idea was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly. Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas, where they could interact and collaborate.

https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-protest-over-ucsb-mega-dorm/

Thankfully it did not get approved.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 years ago

Easy to say if you're on death's doorstep and also worth over 2 billion dollars. It won't be him having to deal with the fallout of capitalistic destruction, he just got to eat big and sit pretty, telling other people for decades how stupid they are about money...

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 47 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The moon from the smashing pumpkins "tonight tonight" video emerged from it's platinum-lined bunker and helicoptered into a press conference in order to deliver a dire economic warning.

"There are tough times ahead (of you)." Said the anthropomorphization of the human conflict between the spirit of adventure and terror of the unknown. "Everyone (of you) is gonna have to make sacrifices."

When asked about its own sacrifices the early French cinema reference said "Why yes, I've had to make sacrifices. Due to budget cuts, we've not been able to pay what we used to for orphan children to heave into my gaping maw. It used to be several premium infants a day, now I'm lucky if I get two Spaniard toddlers to quench my insatiable, burning hunger for innocent blood. In this way, I feel I've sacrificed even more than the rest of you. I've sacrificed my sacrifice, and I give up more every day in the form of feasting on subpar children than most of you will lose when my capital group buys your foreclosed home at auction."

"No matter how hard things get, or how much the world demands (of you)," the monster embedded in the collective human imagination added, "remember that we're all in this together." It then boarded it's helicopter, which flew it a short way to a yacht with a helipad, which itself sailed out to sea until it could dock in an even bigfer yacht. From that yacht then launched a rocket, presumably to carry the nightmare creature back to it's home in low earth orbit where it can continue to look down on us, but literally this time.

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[–] NinePeedles@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 years ago

He looks like Mitch McConnell in zero gravity

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

Into the woodchipper, ya wrinkled little assclown.

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Picture is perfect for showing how he's a lizard wearing a human skin costume

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dude looks like that fat wojak with the glasses with his head tilted slightly upward

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[–] dfc09@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I've read a series called "Galaxy's Edge", and in it, the 1% on earth had furthered their stranglehold on media, propaganda, resources, etc, and Earth was finally crumbling. Food wars, corporate armies, the whole shebang. Eventually, the 1% pooled their resources together to just leave Earth on massive colony ships, ditching the unwashed masses to die in pursuit of a new start.

What makes me laugh is that once they all dipped, earth just... Recovered. Got through the hard times and developed hyperdrive to jump off into the stars themselves, getting to all the planets thousands of years before the slower-than-light colony ships the original 1% left in. When they finally start emerging from the dark of interstellar space, their zealous beliefs that they're the most important people in the universe has convinced them to chase down fucked up biotech and they're all post human monstrosities hell bent on destroying the "animals" who have lived in relative harmony without their existence.

Can't help but feel like that rings a bell. The billionaires will rape our planet to death and then just dust off in private space ships leaving us for dead. If we pull through, they'll come back to keep raping.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

It's funny if they think we're letting them off this rock once they wreck it. Pretty hard to launch a ship with a crowbar sticking out the side.

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[–] Conyak@lemmy.tf 35 points 2 years ago

Except it doesn’t have to be that way. We just have to get rid of these fucking billionaires that are leeching off of society. You can’t be a billionaire and a good person.

[–] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sounds like the words of someone that needs to be roasted live over an open fire and devoured by coyotes.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Asshole billionaire wants the rest of us to live in windowless closets. Look up Charlie Munger dorm.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago

He can bite my shiny metal ass.

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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Heres an idea. We unalive him. Takes his money. Redistribute the wealth. profit.

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago

It warms my heart that we are blessed by these pearls of wisdom from our fellow man and all-arround relatable person, Charlie Munger.

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

He can "expect less" when all his assets are seized and he's sent to a Alaskan gulag

[–] sammer510@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

No reason to bother sending one this old to the gulag, the glue factory would suffice

[–] StalinForTime@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

HOW DO THEY ALL HAVE THE FACES OF LITERAL DEMONS!?!!?

Like if I saw that face while high I would reach for the 12 gauge.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Eli Valley's art in action.

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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 2 years ago
[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.”

  • Warren Buffet

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html

[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"You will own nothing and be happy" Once again, WASPs are doing everything they accuse us Jews of doing. These pigs get to live spoiled lives by speculating off of honest labor, and THIS is their way of saying "thank you"?

Fuck off, oinker.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Some fascists see the real problems of "a small group of people owns everything and is screwing you over" and instead of making the obvious connection(rich people) they deflect with propaganda and say it's DA JOOS. Others don't even need a reason to be a bigot

[–] RDAM_Whiskers@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

Hear me out. Go fuck yourself.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think billionaires will be happy to have their head on their shoulders, what do I know? I am just a pleb that should be happy with the scraps.

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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

get in the cube

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

In order to feel happy, here is depressing news.

Easy for a billionaire to say.

[–] jabrd@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We should simply beat him to death with sticks

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

It's been a while. They seem to have forgotten that such a thing is possible at all, and they're getting very bold in telling us that a number of us are going to die screaming while they enjoy tech-enabled luxuries beyond people's wildest dreams.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Rich guys says: suck it up, poors!

[–] DannyMac@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

We need to expect less billionaires and that the would would get better because of it.

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

So said every other dipshit in a high place. Accepting one’s station in life is for losers and cowards, especially when it’s guys like this telling me to do so

[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope he knows that not a single tear will be shed in his funeral

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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

'I Think The Best Road Ahead To Human Happiness Is To Expect Less' ... 'safely operated trains'.

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I’d feel happier if he wouldn’t offer shitty advice like that.

[–] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

How about giving away much of your money so that the world can expect more and things can get a little easier for those who are living paycheck to paycheck?

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