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Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales

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Re: Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales

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Post by noobermin »

sb8244 wrote: post #10

I'm struggling to make sense of this....Zuckerberg purchased 700 acres of land, but other families are still using that land (or have the right to)? How can you purchase land that others legally own?

I'm confused too, but reading this:

>Close to a dozen small parcels within Zuckerberg’s Kauai estate are owned by kamaaina families who have rights to traverse the billionaire’s otherwise private domain.

...that suggests to me there are essentially landlocked parcels owned by the natives, perhaps? And if they are land locked, well, the people have to cut through his property to access their land, I suppose.

Re: Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales

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Post by thinkingkong »

haywardsmyfault wrote: post #2

You could argue some of the land parcels in question are owned by growing numbers of family members with each new generation, and that therefore it's likely some (even most) owners wouldn't utilize the land. However, it's also interesting to digest this situation alongside Oxfam's report [1] on 62 people accumulating more wealth than half the world's population combined. Zuckerberg owns 700 acres of Kauai[2]. Why isn…

Your argument is weird. How would mark zuckerburg use 700 acres of property? Who decides what effective use of property is? This is an absurd act of bullying people who may have otherwise had no desire or intention to sell their property, legal loophole or not.

Re: Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales

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Post by amaks »

noobermin wrote: post #9

If Zuck truly is planning to run for office as some speculation has supposed, this does not look good for that. This reeks terribly, I was unaware this was even legal, but this is almost literally depriving someone of their property because you have the money.

He's learning from the best legally elected politicians these days.

Re: Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales

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Post by aresant »

How do we even judge moves like this?

On the one hand this is one in a continued series of "I don't care how it looks" real estate moves by Zuck.

EG like his plan last year to build fake houses on 4 zone residential lots around his Palo Alto residence and turn the block into his private compound http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/15/palo-alto-mark-zuckerb...

And I get it, can you imagine being internationally famous for being a YOUNG billionaire?

Life would be very strange.

I can see it seeming "fair" that you could use some of that wealth to claw back what you can't have anywhere - privacy - when on the other hand you're trying to be "macro good" as one of the world's largest philanthropists? (1 / 2)

So what do we do put a green checkmark in the "Good guy" column and a red checkmark in the "asshole" column?

Sort of like any of us except his checkmarks are super sized?

(1) http://mashable.com/2014/01/02/zuckerberg-charitable-donatio...

(2) http://www.pcworld.com/article/3010838/software-social/zucke...

Re: Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales

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Post by sb8244 »

noobermin wrote: post #21
sb8244 wrote: post #10

I'm struggling to make sense of this....Zuckerberg purchased 700 acres of land, but other families are still using that land (or have the right to)? How can you purchase land that others legally own?

I'm confused too, but reading this: >Close to a dozen small parcels within Zuckerberg’s Kauai estate are owned by kamaaina families who have rights to traverse the billionaire’s otherwise private domain. ...that suggests to me there are essentially landlocked parcels owned by the natives, perhaps? And if they are land locked, well, the people have to cut through his property to access their land, I suppose.

You and ajdlinux are right, thanks!

Re: Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales

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Post by ci5er »

haywardsmyfault wrote: post #2

You could argue some of the land parcels in question are owned by growing numbers of family members with each new generation, and that therefore it's likely some (even most) owners wouldn't utilize the land. However, it's also interesting to digest this situation alongside Oxfam's report [1] on 62 people accumulating more wealth than half the world's population combined. Zuckerberg owns 700 acres of Kauai[2]. Why isn…

> Why isn't that enough?

Who is to judge how much is and is not enough? Do you want an international tribunal allocating a "fair and equitable" amount of square meterage of various quality levels of real estate to individuals?

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