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Mapping and Seizing the Oligarchs' Assets

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bennyelv wrote: post #178
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> Gates is buying up all the arable farmland, and taking advantage of poor African countries. Can you expand on that? I'm sure there are easier ways for him to make money if that's what the purpose is.

https://www.vox.com/recode/22528659/bill-gates-largest-farml...

(to be fair, 'all of the farmland' is not really appropriate: 300,000 acres out of 900 million. He's still the biggest single owner though).

And, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43817537, for one perspective on his Africa ventures.

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bjarneh wrote: post #149
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US and Russia unites in cheering for Russian oligarchs being robbed (ordinary Russians, especially the war-supporting pseudo proletariat, never really valued wealth or private property and would happily watch oligarchs parting with their toys; and the US citizens think something productive is being done). The rich themselves would suffer next to no drop in their quality of life. They probably got rich by exploiting R…

> but all things considered not the worst thing that's happening. I agree, not a big thing, and I certainly think people with that kind of wealth know more about hiding money than the rest of us will ever know, and this war will probably not affect their wealth too much. They probably all knew in advance and shorted some Russian stock on the London stock exchange - making a killing. I do find it a bit strange that we…

Yeah. I am semi-worried about the world turning on regular Russians like myself after that. We are so much easier to deal with than oligarchs with their multiple citizenships and property overseas; for us it's freeze one bank account or card and done.

If I am forced to return and work in Russian IT (seeing as I would also not be able to get paid by overseas customers due to sanctions), we both know which government's war this would support.

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