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My tipping point was a Warren Buffett interview, where he mentioned how it influenced his early life.

Incidentally, this is pretty much how Warren Buffett made his first billions with Berkshire to the best of my understanding.

The News Release from yesterday is that Buffett donated 2.8$B of stock to Gates Foundation and others, earmarked for operations, not endowment.

The way Buffett phrases it also seems misleading on a language level.

> Even Buffett spoke out, that his class wins, but it should not (for the good of society).

Yeah, while I'm a big Buffett fan I think he called that one wrong.

This is what Warren Buffett does with Berkshire Hathaway -- he buys profitable, well-run companies and usually keeps the former owners on to continue operating them.

This is why Musk, Jobs, Buffett were/are so successful.

Warren Buffett would beg to differ with this strategy.

Also, I don't think Buffett is secretly trying to kill off any races - but I do think that the sensitivity surround the topic is directly related to birth control's early history in eugenics.

It remains to be seen how successful he is at this; tech is very different from the brick & mortar businesses that Buffett got rich at, and small startups often have strong advantages over well-funded incumbents.

If more policymakers try to contort the effectiveness of IUDs into a tool for social engineering or make its use a condition for state support, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation may find itself needing to fund yet another battle—to ensure that a woman not only has access to an IUD, but that it is her choice to get one.

In the end, I suspect Buffett is right that some kind of tariff is required to "punish" the bad behavior of Thriftville.

His friend, 84 year old Warren Buffett has said Bitcoin is "not a currency" and advised people to "stay away from it".

Then all the way down at -$0.24 trillion was "net financial transactions", or the trade deficit, which is the thing Buffett's IC proposal would actually be able to control.

Page said he looks to Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the insurance-focused conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett, as a model for how to run a large, complex company, [...] " I recall hearing a guest on the a16z podcast say something along the lines of 'high-growth tech companies eventually become big boring banks,' but I can't remember who said it.

Each norwegian citizen is like Warren Buffett, they sit on a shitload of money but you can't tell.

Best known as Warren Buffett's partner, this book is a collection of his speeches, letters, etc...

Buffett has done well by choosing companies and people that are good at avoiding losing money.