really made me think

Did he really say this?

>>1557516
What the fuck does that mean?

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>>1557629

>>1557633
Is this a real quote?

>>1557633

The bum on the corner has a really hard time getting that coke, he probably found it in the trash half empty.

If you're rich you could own an entire warehouse with cooled containers filled with 10000x coke.

Are you fucking dumb?

>>1557678
I didn't say the quote i just posted it

>>1557516
He's right.
As far as items that claim to be different because of a different price, you run up against the law of diminishing returns.
A $1000 hotel room is not much better than a $500 one.

>>1557644

yeah

>>1557678
You missed the point: he's saying that Coke is the great leveler, that even if that bum finds a coke in the trash, it tastes the same, is the same as the coke which Liz Taylor or the President is drinking.

Quantity is irrelevant, because 1000x coke is uniform, all the same.

Of course, what Warhol ignores is the fact that Coke tastes terrible -- but then again he was only interested in the fame, the allure of the calligraphic red ribbon device, the social capital, the financial power of the phenomenon. In fact to him the taste didn't really matter, because no one buys Coke for the taste.

>>1557516
if gates thinks that money doesnt matter all that much after a million dollars, why doesnt he just donate all his wealth away and leave himself with just 1mil to live off of?

oh right, because its not the same fucking hamburger

1mil is like a mcdonalds hamburger, and 100mil is like a burger from texas roadhouse

>>1557633
Coke is a shitty cheap product though. A rich person can get fine expensive wine while the bum has to stick to cheap beer

>>1557516
The law of diminishing returns. Gates earning another million dollars won't change his life while the wage cuck suddenly earning a million is life changing. No surprise Buffet feels the same way.

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>>1557712
>Coke tastes terrible

>>1557719
I kinda get your point, but if it's between wine and beer, are you looking to get a little booze on or what? At that point an expensive fine wine is pointless. It's seriously just something for people to find an excuse to waste their money on. Not everyone(even rich people) are that flashy, in particular, Bill Gates.

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Meh stupid quote.

Justice, medical care, leisure time, and romantic prospects to name a few things are effected by sums of money beyond that.

>>1557740
affected*
also, you're absolutely right

>>1557516
There is the law of diminishing marginal returns, but it doesn't start at 1 mil you fucks. You start having diminishing marginal returns once you realize buying another yacht to land your helicopter on isn't much different from the first six, so you spend your time bankrolling causes to make life shit for everyone else.

Fuck this smug progressive shit.

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>>1557722
>Frogposter
>Having any sense of taste left

>>1557682
yeah but does the bum in the corner own a private jet

>>1557678
You'll also have diabetes.

>>1557776
implying a private jet is something everyone absolutely needs or even wants

Diminishing returns yo
Also, this is pretty much true
gg no re /biz/

>>1557783
implying i give a fuck about what I "need". I want everything I can think of. I want it all. I am greedy. I am selfish. I want as much money as possible. I love money

>>1557839
Cool. Except you left out the "everyone" and "wants" part of my comment. You've added nothing. Want a cookie?

>>1557839
Greedy people are honestly embarrassing to watch, usually because it's their greed that leads them to have so little, and they don't realize it until they're too old to do anything about it.

>>1557849
Reminds me of some people I know who get themselves deep in debt to show how they "made it". Drowning in their own shit. Nothing rich about them at all.

>>1557740
>romantic prospects

nothings romantic about feigning interest while negotiating a binding financial agreement with a prostitute over a 4 star meal.

>>1557877
Lol.
"Anal will cost you extra"

>>1557516
I don't agree with him. While 50 million could get me all I ever wanted for myself, the 50 billion that Gates has is enough to start the changes I want to see in the world. Send a lander to Europa, start exploiting the mineral resources of space without competition or government interference. Become country level rich and start pushing policy changes on governments that piss you off. Threaten to throw an asteroid at countries that consider embargoing you. The US government will begin to fear you (which I imagine is just about the best feeling imaginable) and commits full force to the space program it abandoned. Your actions have now pushed science forward 100 years and made the entire world quake in its boots.

Or you know, you could give water to Africa like bill is doing.

>>1557516
Most people think money=happiness and that once they make ____ amount of money then ____ can happen and only then will life be great and you can live a rich life.
I'm as $ motivated as any, but money isn't the key to happiness.
Not having money can equal hell though.

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>>1558022
Commodity prices aren't high enough for us to justify exploiting minerals on some parts of the planet, why are you worrying about exploiting minerals halfway across the solar system?

>>1558044
Valuable things like iridium, otherwise I more just want to hold the world ransom, which is probably quite achievable on 50 billion. Seriously a natural rogue asteroid could wipe out billions of people, and at the very least I would like to force the world to spend a couple billion to build a defense system.

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>>1558092
>force the world to spend

at that point its kinda on u ...
thats more money than even most institutions have.

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>>1557516
>bill gates
really gets your noggin joggin'

>>1557628
>>1557644
Tag a famous people's name on a quote and everyone will believe it - Mahatma Gandhi

>>1557633
you could say the same about the sun.
No matter who you are, the sun is free for all.
>except china, because you can't see the sun properly due to pollution...

>>1558132
"fuck off to /pol/" - Kim Jong Un

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>>1557719
Expensive wine barely trumps cheap wine in blind taste tests even when tested by wine connoisures

Hamburger is obviously a metaphor. He is talking about the hedonic treadmill. All the money in the world will never be enough, you will always want more, but you're just eating 'the same hamburger', it will taste the same, the sensations of desire will never lessen or change.

>>1558208
>In a nutshell, Mr. Gates thinks that vaccines and better healthcare have the net effect of reducing population growth because people have fewer children when they expect them to survive. This is supported by data linking increasing health with a decrease in birth rate. The most dramatic demonstration of this is in many European countries where standard of living is high and population growth has dropped below what is necessary to maintain the population. So by increasing worldwide health using vaccination and healthcare we can in the long term decrease population growth. Increased access to reproductive health care can also facilitate this.

Anti-Vaxxers shouldn't be allowed to have children.

>>1558022
Are you a Loonie?

>>1557678
>If you're rich you could own an entire warehouse with cooled containers filled with 10000x coke

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