The Rich Get Lunch Together of the Day

Lunch is getting more and more expensive for the one percent. Well, lunch with Warren Buffet, at least. Every year the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway auctions off a meal at New York City's Smith & Wollensky steakhouse. The winning bid this year was $3,456,789, the highest ever. The winner of the previous two lunches, a hedge fund manager, landed a job at Berkshire, although Buffet doesn't see that happening again this time, as conversation tends to skew towards philanthropic endeavors.

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