October 13, 2007
Deserve to be Rich
Warren Buffet, in an interview by Kenneth Whyte for McCleans.com, offers straight talk about making lots of money:
…I’ve been ungodly blessed, you know, I just happened to be born at the right time in the right place. I tell people if I’d been born a few thousand years ago I would have been some animal’s lunch, because I can’t run very fast or jump very high. Or if I’d been born in Bangladesh or some place things would have been different for me. So what I’ve acquired has been, to an enormous degree, the product of a society that’s a huge capitalist society, and I was born into it at the right time, and I get these disproportionate material rewards in respect to my contribution. There’s all kinds of people who are just as good citizens as I am, they go over and serve in Iraq, they help in their communities, but I happen to be in something that just pays off like crazy and I get everything I want in life…
