Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous
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Nobody ever made a billion dollars being generous
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> See Munger's dorm buildings that he pushed upon universities that make prisons look like hotels.
I've seen them, and they look preferable to the dorms I actually lived in. Getting a room to myself instead of 2-4 people sharing a (what felt like) 100sqft space.
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That's like every university dorm building built before 2010.
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#6I try my best to do this. When I find myself blaming person X for thing Y, it's pretty easy to come up with a way to blame myself instead (e.g. I shouldn't have involved person X in thing Y to begin with).
It oddly makes me feel better and move on with a solution instead of stewing over person X's blunders.
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This is a pretty narrow look at his life, I'd encourage looking more deeply before pointing fingers. I am not defending his dorm buildings, but this feels misplaced. Especially today.
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It's easy to make a pithy observation that he's a billionaire and then proceed to spew hate while thinking everything is a zero sum game. When Charlie was in his 30s, he was broke, his 9 year old son died, and he had a divorce. He was never a victim that blames others for their misfortunes though.
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> See Munger's dorm buildings that he pushed upon universities that make prisons look like hotels. I've seen them, and they look preferable to the dorms I actually lived in. Getting a room to myself instead of 2-4 people sharing a (what felt like) 100sqft space.
Were your dorm rooms brand new and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and forced upon the university and city via throwing money around?
Also, there are plenty of reports of just how bad his designs are: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/02/business/munger-residence...
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> See Munger's dorm buildings that he pushed upon universities that make prisons look like hotels. I've seen them, and they look preferable to the dorms I actually lived in. Getting a room to myself instead of 2-4 people sharing a (what felt like) 100sqft space.
+1 these looked great, I would have much rather lived in this than the triple with zero privacy I lived in during school.