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Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros. I had a period where I appreciated people who played the system to get rich. Before I understood the system itself is the problem.
I remember him as being a scumbag going back to the 80's. Ripping off the Mac GUI, and then going on to bully, absorb and run out of business countless smaller enterprises through strong-arm legal / financial tactics.
Amazing how many things the Simpsons got right, yet it didn't matter.
What I find most interesting is that Warren Buffet has come right out said it's weird that society will reward people into being billionaires and has publicly stated that there's is for sure a class war going on and billionaires are winning.
I think it's nice he's giving most of his fortune away but disappointing he hasn't called for the system that made his fortune to be dismantled.
because he benefited from that system that gave billionaires that advantage, of courses hes not go to bite the hand that feeds him.
Of all the wealthy people I've ever read about, Buffet seems to actually care about money the least. Like's he's in love with the process in the way that an autistic person loves their hyper focus but if he lost everything, it wouldn't faze him.
i never saw them as rolemodels, its not really somehting that ever connected with me at all, with gates he always seem too snobby and gave off a faek vibe, now we know why.
Damn this was so sad. What kind of a bummer must your childhood have been if Warren Buffett was your hero?