Andrew Lahde Fairwell Email

Did anyone read the Andrew Lahde fairwell email? The whole thing is hilarious. I quote:

"The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, andthen the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy ofthe education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG,Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supportingthe Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the otherside of my trades. God bless America."

In his letter he touches upon everything from enjoying life, rags on the over privileged, the broken financial system, and gov't in general. He has found insight that I truly want to replicate. Anyways it brightened up my day in what has been a dismal month.

 
greenman101:
He sounds like a total fool. He got extremely lucky and bailed because he knows he can never replicate his success.

Thats cause he doesn't need to do what he did again. He's rich now, and knows (one of the few smart people) that happiness is not positively correlated with the pursuit of money, after a certain threshold. He reached that threshold and will probably be on a permanent vacation.

In my book, he won when almost everyone else lost. Got rich when everyone else got poor. A+.

 
greenman101:
He sounds like a total fool. He got extremely lucky and bailed because he knows he can never replicate his success.
Wow, probably the most idiotic post I've seen in a long time. Disproving your own point whilst making it so fervently! Well done. How can anyone who has the self-awareness which you correctly judge ("he knows he can never replicate") Lahde to have, be a "total fool"?!
 
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I agree with some of the things. What I don't like is

I had to compete for spaces in universities and graduate schools, jobs and assets under management – with those who had all the advantages (rich parents) that I did not

No shit- we all compete and we all have shortcomings. The billionaires of the world and other uber successful people rarely have rich parents. And university and graduate school does NOT help much in making people uber successful. You won. Stop bitching and get some class (yale and harvard would have helped with that though)

e.g. "I'm black. wah-la-la-la. I am so successful despite having to compete with the burden of racism. It just proves how much more awesome I really am." Same for female, poor, latebloomer, former drug addict, country hick, from a third world country, blah, blah, blah. So the f what?

.......Agree with the hemp rant though.

 

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