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Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

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There's no Buffett's strategy. Market buys whatever Buffett's company bought. That's how he got unusual gains. Moment of fame stretched over 60 year of clipping coupons off of that initial fame. The thing that made it possible was that he was content with his performance and never tried to one up himself. He kept his fame and market interest in him simmering over six decades inatead burning out in one bright flash.

> There's no Buffett's strategy. Market buys whatever Buffett's company bought. That's how he got unusual gains. That sure does trivialize him. If that was your goal, you nailed it. I personally don’t think that’s a fair take, but I’ve no interest in trying to change your mind.

> That sure does trivialize him. If that was your goal, you nailed it.

Pretty much. I'm always interested what's left once I reject te ususal narratives that people keep repeating to each other. I find this kind of excercise insightful and satisfying.

While in every working thing there's myriad of significant details, the main engine of operation is usually just one usually quite straightforward thing. I like making attempts at recognizing those main things. I'm sometimes wrong but even when I am I find satisfaction that I tried instead just repeating some selection of what other people said.

Re: Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

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A man who built what he loves and produced so much surplus value for the rest of us to enjoy (read: profit) is _exactly_ a hero. I’m sure I could find ways critique him, but not in the context of celebrating his career.

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He literally sits around and reads financial reports all day.

Re: Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

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Buffet is not a good guy. Our society’s greatest problem right now is concentrated corporate power being used to destroy the ability of working people to prosper. Buffet had an active and direct role in making this happen. He supported and advocated for monopoly, and profited from it. He lived a lavish life that included opulent mansions and private jets, and used his resources to deftly drive a media narrative of hi…

Not doubting you, but any specific examples of him supporting monopoly? Or are you saying the general environment of high finance supports this? No doubt he had more money than he needed but if this is referring to his preference for coka-cola and apple stock / any stocks with the ability to set their own prices because of market dominance, I feel like that’s not a totally fair criticism.

Tons of evidence it’s all hiding in plan sight:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/warren-buffett-americas-f...

Re: Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

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A man who built what he loves and produced so much surplus value for the rest of us to enjoy (read: profit) is _exactly_ a hero. I’m sure I could find ways critique him, but not in the context of celebrating his career.

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Hey, with all the de-industrializing Europe has been doing, everything is now made in China and the only decision western civilization has to make is how do we equally distribute those goods. I mean why do absolutely anything if they just do it China? You can just demand your share of the goods as a human right. They can't shut you down, you're the heroic consumer after all without which the economy wouldn't exist. /s

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Sorry, a person who life is built around greed is no hero.

I don't want a society where you have to be a hero to produce mass benefit to others. I want a society where greedy people feel like they have to serve the needs and wants of others to fulfill their greed. I don't know to what extent Buffet does it. Nor does our current quasi-fascist society where the government is highly embedded with industry and regulating who is the winner and who is the loser and then taxing/inf…

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.” — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

Re: Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

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post #122

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Buffet is not a good guy. Our society’s greatest problem right now is concentrated corporate power being used to destroy the ability of working people to prosper. Buffet had an active and direct role in making this happen. He supported and advocated for monopoly, and profited from it. He lived a lavish life that included opulent mansions and private jets, and used his resources to deftly drive a media narrative of hi…

Do you feel this way about all billionaires or is it something about Buffet?

I do feel exactly that with few exceptions.

Re: Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

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> He's probably the one billionaire alive today for which you could not make that case. Is this Stockholm Syndrome?

Very likely. Billionaires can afford to cultivate a persona for the masses. It’s so odd when the majority actually buy it.

Not everyone can afford to waste energy on angry and envy directed toward private citizens who have literally nothing to do with them

Re: Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

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I'm at that point now, debating when I'll retire. We only live once and I'm not sure if I should continue working. I've reached financial freedom at a pretty young age. It's a daily debate in my mind when to call it quits, but I've never not worked and it's difficult to make the change. What I'm missing in life is time and that's what work takes from me and is the driving force behind my desire to retire -- time to d…

If you don’t have family or kids do not stop working.

And if you do have kids, the most profitable thing for your wife to do upon learning you won't be working any longer would be to divorce you, take 50%, impute your income for child support calculation at what you were earning before (so every 5 years you owe your full pre-tax salary). That way their quality of life won't be impacted nearly as much.

So likely at least 8x your pre-tax salary (like 11 or 12x post tax) is gone right off the bat as soon as you retire. So if you are retiring before age 40 basically all of your wealth will vaporize as soon as the mother of your children realizes they can basically take the entire wealth through a mixture of divorce, child support, and alimony and they must act fast before the imputed income calculation drops.

Re: Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

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Berkshire stock could fall 99% and he would still have outperformed the S&P. Insane.

Interesting that his performance was essentially identical to the S&P over the past 30 years (Sortino 0.72 vs 0.69): https://testfol.io/?s=jJ4P0GrZxLi

I wonder how much is due to the market becoming more efficient, vs Berkshire's size / market impact?

Re: Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

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Sorry, a person who life is built around greed is no hero.

I don't want a society where you have to be a hero to produce mass benefit to others. I want a society where greedy people feel like they have to serve the needs and wants of others to fulfill their greed. I don't know to what extent Buffet does it. Nor does our current quasi-fascist society where the government is highly embedded with industry and regulating who is the winner and who is the loser and then taxing/inf…

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