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Re:Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf] by vintermann on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @07:00AM (#45886345)
Excessive consumption isn't really the main problem with billionaires. It's the money they don't spend on consumption which is worst. The money spent on the pursuit of more money, buying up zero-sum goods that shouldn't even be for sale, like political power.
Re:Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf] by runeks on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @08:04AM (#45886835)
> Excessive consumption isn't really the main problem with billionaires. It's the money they don't spend on consumption which is worst.

Which consumables do you think billionaires should spend their money on?

And how would this improve the world?

Re:Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf] by vacuity on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @05:13PM (#45893608)
From my reading, GP is saying that, if one problem is the main one, it is the problem of billionaires spending money on not-consumption. There was no praise for "excessive consumption".
Re:Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf] by vintermann on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @12:57AM (#45896801)
I think billionaires are a policy failure, and should not exist.