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 Best Price: $30.51 Buy New $19.54 (as of 04:06 EDT - Details) 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.