Warren Buffett is Everything That’s Wrong With America
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Esther Bubley Passengers on Memphis-Chattanooga Greyhound bus 1943 I think I’ve never understood the American – and international – fascination with m
[See the full post at: Warren Buffett is Everything That’s Wrong With America]Our current society grew, step by logical step, from the feudal world, where we were fully integrated into steady state local ecologies.
It is a reduction to absurdity, yet every step was logical and an improvement of some sort.
We are not the critters we were born to be, but don’t tell us. It’s depressing. We’re fine…
Zoo Animal MDIt’s not an overly complex dance that involves almost everybody.
But in order for there to be a dance requires the music and the dancers to that music.
There is more than enough shirked responsibility to cover almost everybody.
What’s forgotten is that there is always a choice; some of us choose not to dance or even listen to the music.
If it all becomes unbearable we still have choices; one of which is to leave; whatever way you choose to interpretate leaving.
I’m much less sympathetic (as time goes forward) to those employing the whaa factor.
Once a government proves itself intransigent is the moment of truth: Aren’t we past that point now? I thought so back in 2003, and so did some, well before that.Warren Buffet has been marketed as the “Oracle of Omaha”, and to his credit gives away a hell of a lot of his money (in the billions), but a deeper look reveals some very hawkish attitudes in his support of the military.
As to food? Hell, I made conscious choices long, long ago which involved educating myself about food; it has more than payed off to this very day.
Physician; heal thyself…The Buffet argument leads to some interesting places. Do people have the right to eat what they want? Even if it’s bad for them? Who’s going to decide? Science, which keeps getting everything wrong? Who’s going to stop them? The police, who enforce the law in proportion to your net worth and often enough kill the little fish with impunity but let the big criminals free?
And there is a real damage, real cost to the “Society At Large.” But that is just us again, who either have rights or do not. And what happens if you double up on the costs to Society At Large by offering universal health care? One of the few restraints on bad (health) decisions is the knowledge that you’ll be paying for your own errors. So what happens if you never pay, but make your neighbor pay for you?
So if you agree to health care not paid individually, (which promotes death to the poor) don’t you immediately then have to take control over everyone’s eating, smoking, exercising, and life habits? And therefore, logically, once you accept helping Society At Large, you need to control and enforce every thing every human does down to every decision, every action, every breath, every bite?
I mean, isn’t that logical? If Buffet is responsible here, then aren’t we responsible to take it away from him, to force our will on society for its own good, as well?
It’s interesting stuff.
Good article, but I wish it focus more precisely on the model of capitalism as it is practiced in the world today.
All decisions and business are based on “does it make money?” That reasoning leads to stupid decisions that destroy the environment we live and serves to only benefit the few people at the top of pyramid. It’s like defecating in the bed we sleep in, but it’s okay because some corporation makes a profit doing it.
It seems every problem that we have would be cured if only we had more money to deal with it. That is a very telling clue. I now understand what is meant by ‘money is the root of all evil’
There’s nothing wrong with money or doing business, but when everything is done for profit only we make stupid decisions. Why should a company like PG&E make a profit off of providing necessary utilities to humanity? Why can’t it be run as a non-profit community benefiting enterprise? Of course it needs to be paid for, but why should we also have to pay for someone to make a profit? Why can’t it be run just for the cost, so that everyone working there gets paid a fair salary and the infrastructure is maintained? We don’t need to make a profit as well, that only serves some elite people at the top.
We need a new mentality to address the proper organization for society. We have too long been ruled and brainwashed by the people in power.
rticle, but I wish it focus more perciStanford U.’s series on Hacking Consciousness included a presentation titled The Hacked and Highjacked Body:
Dr. Pam Peeke talks about the science behind food and addiction. She also shows us how we can harness the emerging science of epigenetics to make lifestyle changes, including transcendental meditation, which can transform our own DNA.
Topics include a fledgling science call epigenetics which is about gene expression and it relationship to diet choices. Also cutting edge new research on food addiction processes.
Fred Nupel,
Good points, but I’d say you don’t really skirt the problem with not for profits. After all, the executives can still earn a lot of …. money. Discussing what’s worth doing is, nonetheless, a useful first step.Agree about Buffet. Did you know he has a real estate firm now? I can’t believe all the signs around me, everyone is using him! I see Berkshire Hathaway sale signs and wonder WHY these people all want to give him a commission?!
Food additives is my soapbox. Did you see the recent research on emulsifiers? Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome in Nature? I will email you the article. They tested 2, but there are at least a dozen emulsifiers used in processed foods. I am surrounded by people with colon problems, who are having portions removed. It’s agonizing. If this is the cause then the food companies should pay, but first I predict they will fight it like Big Tobacco.
On another food issue, Be glad you are in the EU and don’t have to have ractopamine with your bacon. Those bacon whoppers can be a killer!
”Nice” piece on Buffett’s mobile home empire:
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/03/17024/warren-buffetts-mobile-home-empire-preys-poor
You have a perfect right to be poor or not acquire any more excess wealth than what you need.
Warren has the perfect right to be a very successful investor as well.
It’s all about freedom from tyranny, and those who would tell us that we should be like them, the good people. The caring people. Those who love us and are looking out for our own good. Al Gore, Michelle Obama and Dear Leader Kim Jong-un come to mind, there are scores of other good wise people who would also rise to the task of telling us that they are good and we are bad.
Another wonderful article from Pravda.
Assigning blame to Warren Buffet for any part of America’s obesity problem is asinine. You speak as if none of these companies existed until Buffet clapped his hands and poof! That, if not for Berkshire Hathaway, Coca-Cola and Whoppers would not exist.
All these food companies under Berkshire Hathaway’s umbrella existed in its present form before being purchased, and they all sold the same “crap” that you accuse Buffet for. It’s not as if Dairy Queen was selling organic spinach turnovers before joining the Berkshire Hathaway family.
You also assume that America’s obesity problem is due to excessive influence of corporate marketing on consumers’ choices. A more plausible answer: people should learn to cook the old-fashioned way, wIth raw ingredients. Obesity is the symptom, but the real issue is the dissolution of the nuclear family in modern society and the failure of the parent(s) to take responsibility in leading healthy lives and being positive role models for their families.
Your writing is normally informative and knowledgeable, but this sort of character assassination is out of line. Perhaps you should perform due diligence on your subject before you denigrate his person behind the protection of your monitor.
I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. – Principal James Downey.
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