I'm glad you linked the Snopes article - important context is that Buffett said this was a problem. The image and quote make it sound like he's gloating.
yeah imagine trying to snopes us without even reading the snopes
hes one of the few who understands whats going on is ultimately bad even for his class. that he and other of the super rich would be better off with less wealth they can't spend in a better functioning society.
important context is that Buffett said this was a problem
Yet he still insists on remaining a hectobillionaire, profiting obscenely off of the very system that incentivizes the war.
Until that changes, he deserves as much credit as Shell does for pretending to want to decrease emissions.
Exactly. "It's a shame the poors aren't winning the fight to take my wealth. Oh well..."
Sweet words are free, he's choosing to stay rich.
Dunno, that's like saying every gun owner is a sandy hook shooter. There's plenty of problems that need solving, you take them in order of prioritization. Equating them all is stupid. If I've got enough hammer and nails to fix one thing, I'm going to fix the biggest problem I can.
To act without prioritization is akin to using your one hose to water the plants instead of put out your house fire.
You solve enough high priority problems and you'll be surprised how many smaller issues resolve themselves as a matter of course.
Further, in conversation it came up that Mr. Buffett doesn't use any tax planning at all. He just pays as the Internal Revenue Code requires. "How can this be fair?" he asked of how little he pays relative to his employees. "How can this be right?"
Even though I agreed with him, I warned that whenever someone tried to raise the issue, he or she was accused of fomenting class warfare.
"There's class warfare, all right," Mr. Buffett said, "but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
The image and quote make it sound like he's gloating.
Kinda, but only if you aren't thinking critically. Otherwise, you'd realize that nobody who didn't understand it to be a problem would phrase it like that, even to gloat.
Yes. This is not the phrasing of someone who's proud of it
Buffet would definitely be waaaaaay down on the list of evil billionaires. In fact you might be able to dig up enough to make an argument that he isn't evil. Maybe.
He wants us to think that. He disowned one of his granddaughters for having the temerity to appear in a documentary called "The 1%" that one of the Johnson & Johnson kids made a few years back. He was gloating, and then realized he might need to protect himself from the many people he is screwing over.
That's not now I interpreted it.
Even this section? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/15406815
If he is not cold, hungry, tired, alone, homeless, or dying of a curable disease then he is fucking gloating.
Just need a billionaire to.join our side.
May I introduce you to Jeff Bezos' ex wife, Mackenzie Scott? One can make a difference, but it's not nearly enough.
Luigi was a good start. He's one of us now.
The thing about it is that making war brings you into that class.
All I hear is blah blah
