Nothing beats land: Bill Gates is now America’s biggest farmer
By Harry de Quetteville and Olivia Rutgard
April 8, 2021
https://www.smh.com.au/business/mar...america-s-biggest-farmer-20210408-p57hd0.html
He is famous for his sensible office garb and digitally-amassed fortune, rather than rugged overalls and a weathered hand on the plough. But the pioneer spirit, it turns out, burns bright in Bill Gates.
Late in life, the sultan of software, emperor of intangibles, has discovered what the British aristocracy have known for a thousand years: nothing beats land.
There is a certain irony, of course, about Gates, 65, becoming the USA’s biggest private owner of farmland, which American publication the Land Report recently declared him to be. Here is the epitome of elite coastal America, born in liberal Seattle on the Pacific, educated (until he dropped out) at Harvard, investing financially and emotionally in the rural “fly-over” states between, swapping ones and zeros for soil and sod......
sod.
Ready to swap books for gum boots? Bill Gates has become the largest squire in the US.CREDIT:WWW.GATESNOTES.COM
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By Harry de Quetteville and Olivia Rutgard
April 8, 2021
https://www.smh.com.au/business/mar...america-s-biggest-farmer-20210408-p57hd0.html
He is famous for his sensible office garb and digitally-amassed fortune, rather than rugged overalls and a weathered hand on the plough. But the pioneer spirit, it turns out, burns bright in Bill Gates.
Late in life, the sultan of software, emperor of intangibles, has discovered what the British aristocracy have known for a thousand years: nothing beats land.
There is a certain irony, of course, about Gates, 65, becoming the USA’s biggest private owner of farmland, which American publication the Land Report recently declared him to be. Here is the epitome of elite coastal America, born in liberal Seattle on the Pacific, educated (until he dropped out) at Harvard, investing financially and emotionally in the rural “fly-over” states between, swapping ones and zeros for soil and sod......
sod.
Ready to swap books for gum boots? Bill Gates has become the largest squire in the US.CREDIT:WWW.GATESNOTES.COM
.....more.....