Despite all the dystopian news media, concerns about climate change, rising inflation, and deadly pandemics—I believe that today is, by far, the single best time in all of human history to be alive.
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: "Today, baristas in our stores earn on average $17.50."
"Respectfully, that's more than the minimum wage of every senator that's represented a state on this committee, including Chairman Bernie Sanders." trib.al/OCvHqH6
People who derive an obsessive (& vicarious) pride from the "achievements" of their ethnicity, while degrading other groups, tend to be insecure, often vicious, hierarchy-sensitive losers who can't cope with their sense of personal failure.
people have happily worked so hard to build stuff for you knowing they would never meet you
just hoping that some of the people of the future would continue the quest and build the next branch of the tech tree
7. “It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
• Realize you don’t actually know much & your humility levels will explode
• People get glued to humility like bees to honey
• The best you can hope for in life is to make people think.
If you’re not particularly cracked at anything, just know, that whatever you’re passionate about, there’s someone out there with the same passion as you, but is significantly more cracked at it because they chose to put in the work.
Put in the work.
Berkshire Hathaway paid $26.8bn in taxes in 2024, which is 5% of ALL corporate taxes collected by the IRS that year.
This is Buffett's response to that. Truly a class act.