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He says it's for investment. Apparently a lot of billionaires have a lot of farmland.
"Starting in 2013, Gates began investing his billions (through the firm Cascade Investment) in agriculture because of its steady increase in value and low volatility. According to Mother Jones, the average price of farmland increased six times from 1940 to 2015, and the trend is likely to continue as the amount of arable land in the U.S. continues to shrink from climate-related pressures.
However, this practice of buying up agricultural land predates Bill Gates and has been a popular investment for the super-rich since at least the early 2000s. The financial crisis later in that same decade prompted an explosion of investments into farmland when monetary safe havens became scarce."
Because that's what the "Darth Vaders" throughout human history do. He can't really be a Stalin or Hitler or Napoleon or Vlad ÈšepeÈ™ (at least at this point) under our system, so he does as much as he can within current restraints. You can bet there would be some "camps" on that land if he thought he could get away with it. It's the way of the megalomaniac.
1. Money. Investment in hard assets. We are running out of farmland as America continues to develop rural land in the exurbs. It is not getting any cheaper. It is a good investment.
2. Coordinated plan. Bill Gates is not alone. He has been joined by many elite billionaires and the Chinese Communists buying up US farmland. All manner of globalist totalitarians are gobbling up farmland to take it out of production.
3. Rewilding. They are buying US farm land to convert it from industry to wilderness land. Gates will not be farming his land. He is going to leave it for nature to reclaim. UN Agenda 21 outlines a plan to re-wild most of rural America. People will be relocated from rural farms and ranches and town, into cities and suburbs. This is a natural progression anyway, but UN Agenda 21 just greatly speeds it up -- not through violence or some such, just through regulations and buying people out. The plan is for nature to take over rural areas like farms and ranches, replacing humans with increasing populations of animals
4. Population control and depopulation. Gates and the other elite globalists buying up US farmland want to diminish global food production, mainly to reduce world population. America is the bread basket of the world. If you restrict US food production, you reduce the ability to support world's growing population and can even reduce global population if you starve enough people long enough.
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