Rest in Piss, Chuck!! 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀
in his last will, munger has revealed he has a controlling stake on the funding of 67% of american colleges and demands that they all build windowless mungersoleums in which 5% of america's student body must be buried together with an effigy of munger.
I didn't know it until I read this that in August - UC Santa Barbara rejected his $200 million "gift" to create his idiotic windowless skinner building. It's covered in the last few paragraphs.
Architectural efforts
Though Munger had no formal architectural training, he contributed heavily to numerous building designs, including dormitories at Stanford University and the University of Michigan, as well as his current home. He has donated to universities on the precondition that the universities follow his architectural blueprints exactly. In each case, Munger promoted key architectural concepts of his own liking, and ceded professional architectural responsibility to a licensed architect of record, e.g., Hartman-Cox Architects in the case of the dormitory at UMichigan, and the firm of VTBS for the U.C. Santa Barbara residence hall.
On April 18, 2013, the University of Michigan announced the single largest gift in its history: a $110 million gift from Munger to fund a new "state of the art" residence designed to foster a community of scholars, where graduate students from multiple disciplines can live and exchange ideas. The gift includes $10 million for graduate student fellowships. Munger designed the residence, which houses 600 single bedrooms, most of which are designed to be windowless.
The Munger Graduate Residence, funded and designed by Munger himself, opened in late 2009 and now houses 600 law and graduate students. The Munger family gave a major gift to Stanford's Green Library to fund the restoration of the Bing Wing as well as the construction of a rotunda on the library's second floor, and endowed the Munger Chair in Nancy and Charles Munger Professorship of Business at Stanford Law School.
Munger was a trustee of the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles for more than 40 years, and previously served as chair of the board of trustees. His five sons and stepsons as well as at least one grandson graduated from the prep school. In 2009, Munger donated eight shares of Berkshire Hathaway Class A stock, worth nearly $800,000, to Harvard-Westlake. In 2006, Munger donated 100 shares of Berkshire Hathaway Class A stock, then valued at $9.2 million, to the school toward a building campaign at Harvard-Westlake's middle school campus. The Mungers had previously made a gift to build the $13 million Munger Science Center at the high school campus, a two-story classroom and laboratory building which opened in 1995 and has been described as "a science teacher's dream". The design of the Science Center was substantially influenced by Munger.
In October 2014, Munger announced that he would donate $65 million to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This is the largest gift in the history of the school. The donation went toward construction of a residence building designed by Munger for visitors of the Kavli Institute in an effort to bring together physicists to exchange ideas as Munger stated, "to talk to one another, create new stuff, cross-fertilize ideas".
In March 2016, Munger announced a further $200 million gift to UC Santa Barbara, conditioned on the university's commitment to spend it on an undergraduate dormitory of Munger's own unconventional design preferences, notably windowless bedrooms and common areas, while tripling the record gift he gave for the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.
In October 2021, Munger's insistence that the university follow his design compelled professional architect, Dennis McFadden, who had served the university for two decades, to resign from the university's Design Review Committee. McFadden stated that the windowless, 1.68-million-square-foot dormitory would be...
"unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent, and a human being ... An ample body of documented evidence shows that interior environments with access to natural light, air, and views to nature improve both the physical and mental wellbeing of occupants ... The Munger Hall design ignores this evidence and seems to take the position that it doesn't matter ... [T]he building is a social and psychological experiment with an unknown impact on the lives and personal development of the undergraduates the university serves."
In August 2023, after widespread backlash to what critics called the "windowless dorm," UC Santa Barbara abandoned the project and began to solicit alternative housing proposals. Munger also withdrew his pledge of support.
nice to know but where is my onion article where UC santa barbara instead decided to lease some of its campus to santa barbara correctionals inc. where the munger hall will be built anwyays
I'm starting to think wishing for his death makes him stronger
He feeds on our hatred
He feeds on our hatred
I sure hope not. Or Kissinger Protein Puddle 34038-0AX Sub-Group 903-2 DoubleBeta will still exist when the sun goes supernova.
my other theory is that he asked the powers beyond the veil for immortality in a ritual powered by the immense blood sacrifice of southeast Asians, but he forgot to ask for eternal youth
so there are multiple routes to a protein puddle at the end of the solar system
My personal theory is that he is currently being punished by having his greatest victory, the Sino-Soviet split, be reversed in front of his very eyes, and he has no power to stop any of it. The birth of the multipolar world will be the thing that finally lets him die.
Well fuck. Less than 12 hours after posting this, the fucker finally dies at the spry age of 100. Maybe I need to talk about more evil fucks in this way, just so the universe kills them to spite me.
I keep telling you people Kissenger is the only one alive today who will live to see global communism
All long as there's no glass or it hinders its usefulness as a toilet.
The reddit version of this called him "genius investor."
It's 2023 and MFers still think having capital and generating more capital using it, which the entire system is designed to do, is special.
What's the secret to your success?
M - C ... P ... C' - M' No but seriously what's the secret to your success? Do you like wake up at 3am and do 1000 pushups or something?Oh dang there’s P in there? Is that some vol. 2 formula or something? I don’t recognize the C’ either, actually…
it's less fun than vol 1 because it was compiled by Engels from Marx's notes after Marx died. It lacks the literary flair. It's drier. Still good though.
"The process of circulation of capital" would be a good title for a book that I would absolutely find fascinating and simultaneously want to scoop my own brain out while reading
Once again. Crabs for old bastards dying of ridiculous old age is not crab worthy.
His 99. Id say he has 30 years of suffering from old age
Celebrating someone dying at 99 feels weird. Like this dude won.
It reminds me of this bit from the webcomic Order of the Stick. Sure these bastards croak but only after having enjoyed the fruits of the most brutal imperial machine that has ever existed for most of their lives. Sure the end bit sucks but I'm sure the preceding decades more than made up for even an exceedingly horrible death
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Guess he died the villain.
And like all villains, he died completely insulated from the impacts he left on the world.
next? Please???
