Warren Buffett (b. 1930)
Filed under the name Warren · March 16, 2026
Warren Buffett pledging the vast majority of his fortune to philanthropy is the detail that actually gets my attention here, way more than the investing genius everyone already talks about constantly. I've watched enough personal-finance content thanks to a friend who's genuinely evangelical about index funds to know that "the Oracle of Omaha" gets treated almost like a meme in that world, half-joking, half-worshipped, but the philanthropic pledge is the part that doesn't get memed nearly as much, probably because giving away most of an enormous fortune is a lot less fun to quote-tweet than a clever investing rule. I'm someone who thinks about money anxiously, because I've had to be, working three jobs through college with basically no safety net, so it's genuinely hard for me to imagine having so much that giving most of it away is even a real decision on the table. That gap in experience is exactly why I try not to be too glib about wealth I've never had, but the choice to redirect that much of it deliberately still seems worth real respect.