Fits the “privatize the profit, socialize the loss” model. Many people that have followed Buffet for some time have known the Saint Warren does what is in the best interest of Saint Warren - ALWAYS. Even when he invites all of his investors to Omaha to celebrate their money, Buffett turns the whole event into another marketing opportunity. Actually the genius of both Buffett and Gates is to recognize the value of products that other people have created and to turn them in to cash machines. I don’t know if either one of them ever produced an original idea on their own unlike the giants of the past. This story also adds more evidence to the case that most of the rich are libs that view the government as a tool to manipulate the market to their advantage.