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Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case
For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible.
The Coming of Neo-Feud.
Kotkin, Joel
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Thomas Jefferson believed that the success of America’s exemplary struggle to supplant the yoke of European feudalism with a noble experiment in self-governance depended on the perpetual control of the nation’s land base by tens of thousands of independent farmers, each with a stake in our democracy.