I'm with Goofyhoofy. The future will hold many surprises.

The odds are likely in our favor as to making more money with a disassembly of Berkshire into various units. This type of spinning out disassembly has been profitable over the years for long holding Danaher shareholders, for example.

Ted and Todd, while awesomely good investors, have not quite attained WEB's unique six sigma proficiency. Additionally, WEB's often mentioned Law of Large Numbers factoid coupled with fewer available elephant sized opportunities further biases Berkshire's future splitting up into multiple companies with each having a large market capitalization.

I plan to be along for the ride. The good news about taxation is it quiets the mind of U. S. based long term investors. If we were in Monaco, well, that would be a wholly different investment decision (an easier decision, I'd say for finding a temporarily undervalued wonderful company to transition one's Berkshire gains without consideration of taxes being siphoned off.)