Buy back? Kick the billionaire out.
Sounds like a time for eminent domain.
The billionaire doesn’t even live there, he lives in Hong Kong.
How about, just ignoring the ownership then.
Great way to start a war with China!
And?
Number of times China has invaded or armed right-wing militias or factions to put a puppet in place because they nationalized a natural resource: 0.
They would certainly try to sue the US in an international court that the US doesn’t recognize, but lmao.
They would certainly try to sue the US in an international court that the US doesn’t recognize
The US would recognize them if the US won.
You would think, but the US basically left the WTO it basically controlled during Trump pt I
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The US National Park service frowns on people tossing anything into the volcanos. But the deep, deep ocean has no enforceable jurisdiction.
It worked for a group of them up near the Titanic.
It’s a huge undertaking. If successful, it would be one of the largest land purchases in Hawaii, behind Larry Ellison’s nearly 90,000-acre acquisition on the island of Lanai.
How fucking sad that you can buy 90k acre for personal ownership. There is no reason any one person should own that much land.
It particularly infuriates me whenever I see someone claim that taxing billionaires would remove their incentive to participate in the economy. As though they’re going to say “if I work this year I’ll only be able to afford 40,000 acres, guess I’ll shut the company down”.
Fuck those lies
I think land ownership itself is one of the big mistakes we made as a species.
Where i live it personal land owners cut off access to water ways. There is a river not 5 minutes from my house however I cant access it cause it’s all private land. Pretty sad
It seems inevitable to me given how territorial people are. Not just people, other animals too. Like even chimps have different groups that control different territory.
Yes, but they don’t own it. Territory has to be used and protected. Ownership has some implication that even if no longer used, it is still “mine” and not the community’s. IDK, tough to see what could be as that branch in the development of civilization is so far back. Rutger Bregman has a segment about this in Humanity.
Capitalism claims to be about needs but it’s really just about the wants of the wealthy.
And the stupid that believe they will be equal at some point.
Especially in a small island chain.
Can’t they just write a special law and annex the land? Ya know, sort of, like, how the US
stole, I mean, um, got, Hawaii in the first place?Yeah, when the uber-rich write the laws in the first place, playing ‘fair’ and doing a direct purchase is a suckers move. Just take it back.
Ikr. “Hawaiians unite to give billionaire more money”
They’re a giving people, the Hawaiians. A great match for taking people.
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Billionaire decides not to sell.
Billionaire doubles price—gets rich off the poor, again.
Shitty move, Hawaii.
And the billionaires still win somehow
Dole food company eyeing this
If this Hong Kong company owns 1/3 of Molokai, Dole must own the other 2/3.
This is bullshit, eminent domain has been used for a lot less worthy causes. The guy’s been absent for a decade, it’s rundown, not developed, abandoned buildings, looks like a hazard to the community.
