Billionaire Bill Gates Guesses Grocery Store Prices
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked to show that a billionaire's price guesses are reasonable, usually in threads about out-of-touch wealthy people.
What it is
On The Ellen Show, Bill Gates plays a game guessing the prices of grocery items.
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What Hacker News said
Cites JeremyBanks · 2019-05 · on “When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake”
That was a scene from the fictional TV show Arrested Development. > Lucille: Don’t you judge me. You’re the selfish one. You’re the one who charged his own brother for a Bluth frozen banana. I mean, it’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars? Gates' actual guesses were pretty reasonable: [this video]
Cites RandomBacon · 2020-03 · on “Google recommends all North America employees work from home”
If you're going to ask people to watch something, it would be nice of you linked to it. Maybe this is what you wete refering to, but I could only find Bill Gates guessing grocery item prices: [this video]
Cites fwip · 2024-09 · on “The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy”
Likely that they conflated it with this video of Bill Gates guessing grocery prices on the Ellen show: [this video]