14 June

This is the brand of prefab rental house that Elon Musk lives in most of the time. It costs about $50,000 US. He has owned expensive real estate in his life, though has now sold most of it. Most of his own fortune is invested in his own companies, not the stock market. He often sleeps in his factories. Many applaud people like Warren Buffett, the genius investor. Buffett is an extremely generous philanthropist. But what does his company BUILD for the world? Nothing of any note. Civilisation is building things. Nearly always the people who drive that seem unpleasant. Building things is hard, the hardest thing. That’s why the people who succeed at it often seem unpleasant. We’d all be dead without them.