He may be one of the least evil of the billionaires, but a 96-year-old handing the reigns of a $1T company over to his 71-year-old son really sums up how well trickle-down economics works for the rest of us.
I’ve worked for a handful of Berkshire owned companies. They are by far the worst employers in my area. If you manage to get past entry level some of the benefits are nice, but none of them compare to the entry level benefits at the worst union jobs I’ve had.
he is know to play it safe with his companies, unlike most other billionaires, who gather negative public perceptions really quick.
By definition they are evil
But he can be among the least evil. There are certainly degrees.
They didn’t said not evil. Least evil is still evil.
It doesn’t do, to grade evils. For if one is the worst, you might be tempted to kinship with least.
- Victor Saltzpyre
No such thing.
Sure there are degrees of evilness. Musk is certainly more evil than buffet. Both can still be evil though.
He’s a piece of shit, and his greed comes at the expense of the public good.
And that he worked to 96, with one of the most monumental fortunes in human history, just goes to show what a greedy, careless, unfeeling motherfucker he is.
I met him a few times. He was a student of Ben Graham, and his life’s joy has been investment analysis and investing. Weatlh has been almost incidental to him. He lives relatively humbly, and still works because he likes it, not because he needs it.
There is a whole class of people like him. My mentor, when I was still in investing, is nowhere as rich as Buffet, but can live comfortably in one of his estates around the US. Yet, he’s still doing investment analysis in his 90s. I met quite a few others who have been working on Wall Street since the 1970s, and many of them still work past their retirement because they like it. It’s almost like a psychosis. They aren’t inherently evil; they are just more comfortable with numbers and business processes rather than human beings (which is ultimately why I switched careers). Buffet has simply been more successful than the others, but it could have been anybody.
My guess is he’s received news he’ll be dead within a year and this is just them executing the succession plan.
Meaning he is only stepping down to protect the weath fund becuase preserving his pile of dragon gold is the most important thing to him.
Whereas for the rest of us, the most important thing he’ll ever do is die as is true for any billionaire. May his son soon do what’s best for us all.
I don’t think he’s the “owner” of Apple and Coca-cola.
(Edit: I believe the title was edited to include the word ‘major’)
Well he’s the owner in the sense that Berkshire Hathaway owns shares. They do not own all or even most of the shares though.
They own 1.56% valued at ~$66B USD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Berkshire_Hathaway
(I commented here about numbers for coca-cola shares, but missed you referred to Apple shares, not cocoa-cola)
I love you Lemmy math nerds.
True. But he is one of the largest shareholder of these two companies.
10% of Coke. 1.5% of Apple. Largest owner of Coke maybe but only top ten for Apple.
They had about 8% of Apple at one point but reduced their holdings quite a bit a year or two ago.
Billionaires dying of old age proves they haven’t invented reverse aging therapy yet.
