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99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 44 Minutes [video]

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Re: 99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 44 Minutes [video]

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Amorality as a virtue.

Not every opinion is a moral one.

If you have strong opinions, you're dividing people. If you're Bezos, you've got a lot of influence. If you then dump them out of opportunism, you're ignoring any morality.

Re: 99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 44 Minutes [video]

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Every thread about munger points this out. Personally I feel it’s missing the forest for the trees. I’m not going to defend the dorm, but munger was one of the titans of business and investing. There’s so much more founders can take away from him than this story about the dorm.

yeah but it reads a little like he puts himself above others (e.g. the students here). He also did not sign the giving pledge, although he justified this by saying he already gave too much to his children for it to work - I cannot argue with these semantics but it's not a good look, nonetheless. As a matter of fact we should stop revering multi billionares. There definitely should be a comeback of the term stinkin ri…

> "As a matter of fact we should stop revering multi billionares. There definitely should be a comeback of the term stinkin rich."

I've always called 'em the "filthy rich" because you know that almost all of them what got that (financially) "rich", they all had'ta get way more'n just their hands "dirty".

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