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Driving 7 minutes to work and stopping at a drive-thru to pick up McDonalds breakfast every day. The man is a true American hero.
by walthamstow 10mo ago
Driving 7 minutes to work and stopping at a drive-thru to pick up McDonalds breakfast every day. The man is a true American hero.
- dullcrisp 10mo agoI always salute at the McDonalds drive-thru.
- Tade0 10mo agoThe man has enviable health.
- bsder 10mo agoWealth does that.
- kylecazar 10mo agoAlso, consistently eating 1 item from McDonald's every day is probably not going to tank your health (if it's one of your few diet vices). We've got people drinking 600 calorie frappucinos before they touch a bite of food.
- matwood 10mo agoAlso, breakfast items are typically the "healthiest" fast food items. An Egg McMuffin for example has a fresh egg, piece of ham and an English muffin. Hardly a disaster meal diet wise.
- nine_k 10mo agoTake a Caesar salad at a McDonald's every day, and your health will likely also be enviable.
- lo_zamoyski 10mo agoThe word "salad" doesn't imply "healthy".
- nine_k 10mo agoIt has plenty of green vegetables, and croutons, sauce, and chicken nuggets are all optional. (Ask me how I know.)
- system2 10mo agoStress is the #1 killer. Being rich likely helps the stress levels. Not worrying about rent/mortgage can likely extend someone's life by 10% easily.
- xorgun 10mo ago[dead]
- adventured 10mo agoGenetics is the #1 killer. Most of a person's potential life expectancy is pre-determined.
- Zardoz89 10mo ago*wealth
- WalterBright 10mo agoMcDonalds has healthy food options. Getting a quarter pounder, a salad, and a cup of water is reasonably healthy. It's the soda and the shakes and the fries that'll getcha.
- divbzero 10mo agoI used to enjoy the salads at McDonald’s, but it’s been a few years since I’ve seen them on the menu.
- csomar 10mo agoNone of what you described is either healthy or tasty. McDonald food is hyper-processed. They add a lot of sugar to a lot of ingredients.
- globular-toast 10mo agoThe quarter pounder is loaded with sugar too unfortunately. The sweet bread is one of the worst things about it. The salad dressing will be too. It's not healthy and doesn't even taste good. But it's addictive.
- blackoil 10mo agoIt has 10g of sugar, which isn't good but no where near a medium coke. Though not a healthy meal because of high sodium, but with some added fibers isn't very bad.
- globular-toast 10mo agoIt's a bit more subtle than that. The sugar is there to make it palatable and addictive. The real problem is it's hyper-processed and ridiculously easy to digest. It'll spike your blood sugar levels then have you wanting more an hour later. There's no point looking at a single food in isolation, you have to look at the entire lifestyle and the kind of lifestyle that includes McDonald's is not a generally a healthy one. Then again Buffett apparently did it for 6 decades. But he also only had to drive a few minutes to work and probably had a mostly stress free life. You can eat all the healthy veg you want but if your day is punctuated by a dreadful commute and generally filled with stress, that's what will get you.
- yndoendo 10mo agoSorry, a person who life is built around greed is no hero.
- jacquesm 10mo agoActualy, he didn't. He's probably the one billionaire alive today for which you could not make that case. I know of one other (but he's dead).
- SecretDreams 10mo ago> He's probably the one billionaire alive today for which you could not make that case. Is this Stockholm Syndrome?
- sharts 10mo agoVery likely. Billionaires can afford to cultivate a persona for the masses. It’s so odd when the majority actually buy it.
- csallen 10mo agoNot everyone can afford to waste energy on angry and envy directed toward private citizens who have literally nothing to do with them
- irishcoffee 10mo agoYou ever see Good Will Hunting? The scene where he talks about where he can “just play” and then describes the most talented people in history at what they do. That’s Buffett in his chosen life’s work. Buffett didn’t get, for example, a small loan of a million dollars to start. He’s been working at this longer than probably anyone what will ever read this comment has been alive. He doesn’t care about the money in the sense I feel you’re implying. Nobody is perfect, and holding anyone to that standard sets an impossible threshold. I don’t know how familiar you are with Warren Buffett, but I would encourage you to dig into his Wikipedia page at least, however accurate we think that is these days.
- borplk 10mo agoHis whole "I love fast food and coca cola" thing is a fake persona
- koolba 10mo agoAs a red blooded capitalist who loves this country as much as the next patriot, I can assure you admiration for fast food and coke is 100% real.
- dyauspitr 10mo agoAdmiration for how American it is maybe but it’s goddamn preservative and sugar ridden slop.
- lotsoweiners 10mo agoYes but many of us love it all the same.
- matwood 10mo agoIDK. I'm living in Italy atm and I see a lot of people drink regular Coke presumably b/c they like it. What's different from the US is that's it's more of a single serving treat, instead of 2 gallons of free refills.
- bdangubic 10mo agoif one is to make a fake persona, fast food and coke (the drink) probably won’t make top-100 list
- ignoramous 10mo agoAu contraire, larger-than-life people may desire to pass off as normal & common.
- IncreasePosts 10mo agoOr that's just what he feels. He also sleeps in a fairly normal home. Wouldn't he have a secret mega mansion if he was just putting on a show?
- riazrizvi 10mo agoYet another example to me of how he literally engineered his life for success, using principles like choosing which variables to hold fixed. What discipline.
- mvkel 10mo agoIf you define success as number going up and to the right, sure.
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- flkz 10mo agoIf he was poor, people would call him lazy for eating mcdonalds everyday...
- weird-eye-issue 10mo agoPoor people should properly budget and cook at home to avoid staying poor If you can afford to eat McDonald's nobody cares (well it's not healthy either but that's a different matter that doesn't really have to do with being poor or not)
- sailfast 10mo agoYou don’t have time to do those things if you are poor and working 2-3 jobs. Properly budgeting and analyzing costs takes a lot of time, and unexpected expenses and cost of living increases destroy your budget a lot more than McDonald’s.
- purple_turtle 10mo ago> Properly budgeting and analyzing costs takes a lot of time For family? Not really
- JumpCrisscross 10mo ago
- MangoToupe 10mo agoIdk about hero, but he's definitely american. What a fast food warrior!
- CPLX 10mo agoBuffet is not a good guy. Our society’s greatest problem right now is concentrated corporate power being used to destroy the ability of working people to prosper. Buffet had an active and direct role in making this happen. He supported and advocated for monopoly, and profited from it. He lived a lavish life that included opulent mansions and private jets, and used his resources to deftly drive a media narrative of himself as a regular guy, with apparent success as your post demonstrates.
- gbacon 10mo agoWhich “opulent mansions”?
- gnopgnip 10mo agoThe 6000 sq ft home in Omaha. The $10m+ home in Laguna Beach. Plus purchasing the home next door as overflow
- JKCalhoun 10mo agoThat actually sounds pretty meager considering his wealth.
- tstrimple 10mo agoFunny how the goal posts shift. From modest house in Omaha to multi-million dollar property in Laguna Beach. If more properties are revealed are those "pretty meager" too? It's amazing the degree to which normal people will simp for billionaires.
- JKCalhoun 10mo agoSince I hadn't established any goal posts, I couldn't have shifted them. But I get your point. I'm happy to make billionaires illegal by taxing them back to being millionaires, but to try and hoist Warren Buffet up as the problem ignores the much, much worst offenders out there.
- csb6 10mo agoBeing genuine here - what is heroic about those two things?
- eBombzor 10mo agoIt's sarcasm
- pesfandiar 10mo agoPoe's Law could very well apply here.
- olalonde 10mo agoNo.
- anonu 10mo agoI think they are being hyperbolic.
- JumpCrisscross 10mo ago> what is heroic about those two things? America threw off a king and founded a republic. Equality is a founding value and one we still respect. A rich man keeping his habits despite his wealth, and doing so next to the rest of us, is a role model for other up and comers. (The Romans had a similar thing about pastoral farmers. Every culture has its myth, and we like it when those in power try to live up to it.)
- tstrimple 10mo ago> Equality is a founding value and one we still respect. Easily stated by someone who was not a slave. Equality had fuck all to do with the founding of this country. Some people were *literaly* slaves. You *literally* could not vote unless you were a male land owner. Fuck this nonsense propaganda. Every bit of freedom in this country had to be fought for against this country and against the majority of white men. And we are still far, far from equal. Not until the vote of a Californian for President is equal in weight to someone from Wyoming. Not until the systemic structural advantage for white men in rural areas is eliminated. It's just such fucking bullshit to preach equality when our entire history has been a counter example.
- yearesadpeople 10mo agoAmerica, as an idea, is so strange
- csomar 10mo agoIs the drive-thru pickup or the McDonald the strange idea. Actually, wait, both are strange. That being said, McDonald did know how to do business. I’ve found myself there several times because their spaces are well located and they invested well in their interior that it made it a good place to grab a coffee alone, with a laptop or for a random meet.
- pvtmert 10mo agoAmerica was the first influencer country in the history
- krapp 10mo ago>America was the first influencer country in the history Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Britain, pre-Columbian Mexico and India would like a word with you after class.
- pvtmert 10mo agoI meant to say modern-day influencer. Like instagram/tiktok like. All this "American-Dream" style things were promotional material with twisted reality. Movies showing luxury lifestyle of a "regular" American/US person. Although per-person adjusted income is really high compared to many parts of the world, day-to-day lifestyle is hardly comparable to "Home Alone" or Wolf of Wall Street themes. But yes, each era had prosperous countries trying to attract talent obviously. From Egypt to Persians then Rome and even Ottomans too. Later on France/Britain during industrialization.
- moomoo11 10mo agoAmerica is awesome.
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- bell-cot 10mo agoBy several accounts, Buffet has a "McGold" card - good for free food for life, at least at Omaha-area McDonalds locations. Combined that with his "frugal" and "creature of habit" reputations, that might explain is morning routine.
- WalterBright 10mo agoIf Buffet was a customer of mine, I'd give him such a card, too. It's good for business!
- fishingisfun 10mo agoalso incredible that america is safe enough for a billionaire to do this alone without security
- beenBoutIT 10mo agoHe spends big money on security.
- agnosticmantis 10mo agoHe shamelessly advertised companies in his portfolio, whether it was always having a can of coke or candies on the table or stopping at a McDonald's in a documentary. I refuse to believe that his lifestyle was what was on display. He lived in the same house for 60 years, sure, but his private jets kept getting upgraded. Good for him, but I find the frugality theater very off putting.
- BiteCode_dev 10mo agoBesides, the chances that you get to that age, with his good health, on a diet of Coke and McDonald's when sitting all day are very low. Much lower than the chance it's just marketing.
- tjwebbnorfolk 10mo agoYou should read one of his many biographies. Every one of them has him drinking like 6 cherry cokes a day, and eating ham sandwiches, mcdonalds, and steak nonstop. You don't have to believe anything, but the many people who spent the most time with him have reported on this extensively.
- option 10mo agoHe definitely had a multi million (vacation ?) house in Laguna Beach, California
- adventured 10mo agoHe has owned a couple of planes as well. Jokingly nicknamed the indefensible. https://sentinel-aviation.com/blog/warren-buffett-nicknamed-his-private-jet-the-indefensible-then-renamed-it-the-indispensable-after-realising-its-value/ https://sentinel-aviation.com/blog/warren-buffett-nicknamed-...
- itake 10mo agoI don't know the details, but large personal residences tax your brain (as well as your bank account). Instead of spending hours of his life negotiating RE purchases, maintaining his properties, cutting checks to plumbers, doing renovations, etc. (that I hear many other billionaires do), he was practical with his (luxury) purchases focusing on time saving (living near work, fast food, private jet) and the experience (luxury vacation). If you don't appreciate that, I think you're missing the point of his frugality.
- RickyLahey 10mo agodamn you guys are gullible
- yuuu 10mo agonoooooooo he’s the billionaire with a heart of gold nooooooooo he’s just a sweet old man who likes mcdonald’s!!!!
- eulgro 10mo agoI have legitimately no clue whether you're being sarcastic or not. Only an American could say that doing that amounts to being a hero. Personally, I call it misery.
- EasyMark 10mo agoyou're going to get a lot of flack because some will only accept if he walked to work and ate vegan gmo-free granola at a granola stand on HackerNews I think to be called a "True American"