Warren Buffett is deceptively likable

But don't fall for it.

Anand Giridharadas, author of the newsletter The.Ink, wrote this guest essay for the Times in which he makes the point that people like Buffett — affable, rich, willing to talk about how his secretary pays more in taxes that does he — convince the rest of us hoi polloi that rich people are necessary, and good. In fact, nice fellas like Buffett are, writ…