QuestionerRemoving your own beverage consumption from the equation, please explain directly why we Berkshire Hathaway shareholders should be proud to own Coke.
WarrenI would find quite spurious the fact that somebody says if you're eating 3,500 or so calories a day and you're consuming 27 or 800, and some of the 3,500 is Coca-Cola to lay it any particular obesity related. illnesses on the Coca-Cola you drink. You have the choice of consuming more than you use. I mean, and I make a choice to get 700 calories from this. I like fudge a lot, peanut brittle, and I am a very, very, very happy guy, and I don't know. I think, I think, I, I, I, I think, I, I, I, I And I'm serious about this. I think if you were happy every day, you know, it may be hard to measure, but I think you're going to live longer as well. So there may be a compensating factor. And I really wish I'd had a twin, and that twin had eaten broccoli his entire life, and we both consumed the same number of calories. I know I would have been happier, and I think the odds are fairly good, I would have lived longer. I think the people who ask questions like that one always make one ghastly error that's really inexcusable. They measure the detriment without considering the advantage. Well, that's really stupid. That's like saying we should give up air travel through airlines because 100 people die a year and air crashes or something. That would be crazy. The benefit is worth the risk. And if every person has to have about eight or ten glasses of water every day to stay alive, and it's pretty cheap and sensible and improves life to add a little extra flavor to your water and a little stimulation and a little calories if you want to eat that way, there are huge benefits to humanity in that. And it's worth having some disadvantage. We ought to have almost a law in the editorial. I'm sounding like Donald Trump, where But these people shouldn't be allowed to cite the defects without signing the offsetting advantage. It's immature and stupid.