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Originally Posted by shant121  Hide behind from what ElizaJ?
Thanks Steve for the answers...just what I had been thinking about the last couple of days!!!!! I was wondering whether businesspeople like Gates or Google founders or Buffet would categorize as darkworkers. and whether lightworkers have to be love dovey all the time :P |
Warren Buffet has lived his entire life in the same house he bought 50 years ago for a few thousand dollars. He has refused to raise his annual salary at Berkshire-Hathaway from $100k per year despite his shareholders begging to pay him more.
He isn't lavish, rather he calls himself thrifty. He drives a 15 year old car. He is giving his entire $45 billion fortune - including all future earnings - to charity.
Buffet also has never hurt anyone on his way to power. The only thing he has been criticized for is layoffs - but layoffs are a service to the society as a whole. Keeping employees on who aren't providing value is hardly a service to humanity like some would make it out to be. Rather he took over failing companies and transformed them into enduring successes.
Buffet represents one of the very last honest CEOs. If he wanted he could have paid himself hundreds of millions from shareholder pockets but instead he has done his best to be fair to them and to humanity in general. The people who deal with Buffet only have glowing praise for the way he ensures everyone around him benefits.
I only have ever seen good in Buffet, and i've read the story of his entire life including now when I keep up with him. Whether he's a lightworker or dark depends on his intentions and so we can never really know. However his effect on humanity has been nothing but positive. He's a role-model to all who want to contribute through knowledge of business/economics.