tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post6650541974386047003..comments2024-03-28T15:17:18.477-05:00Comments on Orange Crate Art: Eric Schmidt and Warren BuffettMichael Leddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-15740448784651887012015-01-24T09:04:34.398-06:002015-01-24T09:04:34.398-06:00I’m no acolyte of Warren Buffett, believe me. But ...I’m no acolyte of Warren Buffett, believe me. But if you look at that statement in context, it’s clear that he’s calling attention to increasing disparities in American culture. He’s certainly a critic of low tax rates for the wealthy.<br /><br />But my point in juxtaposing Schmidt and Buffett was to contrast the one who presumes to tell us how we will live and the one who says that those who do so are presumptuous.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-38228171629613513542015-01-23T22:48:51.299-06:002015-01-23T22:48:51.299-06:00Buffett had famously said that in the last years t...Buffett had famously said that in the last years the contest between the classes has been won by the rich. Perhaps he is interested in another way, for he lobbies for that which better feathers his nest, and if there is disciplines which are interested in telling people how to live, the top of that list finds politics and belief systems neck and neck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-47335570091328074132015-01-23T21:02:59.630-06:002015-01-23T21:02:59.630-06:00But consider Buffett: he says here that he’s not i...But consider Buffett: he says here that he’s not interested in telling people how to live.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-37004411724908943812015-01-23T12:08:51.137-06:002015-01-23T12:08:51.137-06:00Use any search engine (not just Schmidt's) and...Use any search engine (not just Schmidt's) and make a list of the fifty richest people in the world. Then consider that each of these busies themselves with telling other people how to live, The whole of the Davos assemblage is pontificating, a wonderful verb based on the notion of so many pontiffs in our lives today. Personally I hold with freedom, and reserve a few choice words as highlighted by a routine from George Carlin. This probably would sound a bit like a that new smorgasbord, the "Schmidt Buffet."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com