Just a profoundly gross development. I was wondering what unexpected twist was going to make this situation even worse, and there it is.
Investment firms are showing a growing interest in an increasingly scarce natural resource in the American West. For some, that's concerning.
Didn't they already try this in Peru or Chile? I don't think it went so well
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@mcnees that's the most disgusting thing since that shkreli guy.
He is probably involved
@mcnees It reminds me of that free market guy who wanted to privatize every square inch of land, sea and *air*
Now I gotta find it … this is an inevitable consequence of capitalism.
Michael Walker in the doc The Corporation. 11:01:11:
"It sounds outlandish to say we want to have the whole universe, the whole of the earth owned. That doesn't mean I want to have Joe Bloggs owning this square foot. But it means the interests that are involved in that stream are owned"
http://teachers.dadeschools.net/jzoeller/APHG/4-The-Corporation-transcript.html
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