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13.05.2021 11:09:46
With a net worth of $US81.5 billion, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is the richest man in America. more
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With a net worth of $US81.5 billion, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is the richest man in America. more
$US80,000 worth of computer screens are situated around the house. Anyone can make the screens display their favourite paintings or photographs, which are stored on storage devices worth $US150,000.
Gates wrote much of “The Road Ahead” here.
The 60-foot pool is located in its own separate, 3,900-square-foot building. People in the pool could swim underneath a glass wall to come up to a terrace area on the outside. [links]
It shouldn't be too surprising that one of the wealthiest people in the world also has an insanely extravagant home. [links]
Microsoft holds an auction each year, where employees donate products and services to be bid on. Proceeds go to the company's charitable fund.
There's also a locker room with four showers and two baths. [links]
"With pristine ocean views around every corner, Castle Sween is an artfully appointed paradise for beach fans," the listing boasts. [links]
Photos from the listing show a bright, airy home with large windows, a beamed cathedral ceiling and a gas fireplace. [links]
Gates told Time magazine about the unusual arrangement in 1997, the New York Post reported in the wake of Gates’ announcement that he and his wife, Melinda Gates, were getting divorced.
Property records show that Ann Winblad remains listed as a trustee. (Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS/VCG via Getty Images) [links]
"We share our thoughts about the world and ourselves" during the trips, Winblad told Time. more
Our era is dominated by the ultra-rich, the climate crisis and a burgeoning green capitalism. And Bill Gates’ new book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster positions himself as a thought leader in how to stop putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and how to fund what he has called elsewhere a “global green revolution” to help poor farmers mitigate climate change. What expertise in climate science or agriculture Gates possesses beyond being filthy rich is anyone’s guess. here
‘Land is power, land is wealth, and, more importantly, land is about race and class. The relationship to land – who owns it, who works it, and who cares for it – reflects obscene levels of inequality and legacies of colonialism and white supremacy.’ Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Arable land is not just profitable. There’s a more cynical calculation. Investment firms are making the argument farmlands will meet “carbon-neutral” targets for sustainable investment portfolios while anticipating an increase of agricultural productivity and revenue. And while Bill Gates frets about eating cheeseburgers in his book – for the amount of greenhouse gases the meat industry produces largely for the consumption of rich countries – his massive carbon footprint has little to do with his personal diet and is not forgivable by simply buying more land to sequester more carbon. here
‘Land is power, land is wealth, and, more importantly, land is about race and class. The relationship to land – who owns it, who works it, and who cares for it – reflects obscene levels of inequality and legacies of colonialism and white supremacy.’ Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
B ill Gates has never been a farmer. So why did the Land Report dub him “Farmer Bill” this year? The third richest man on the planet doesn’t have a green thumb. Nor does he put in the back-breaking labor humble people do to grow our food and who get far less praise for it. That kind of hard work isn’t what made him rich. Gates’ achievement, according to the report, is that he’s largest private owner of farmland in the US. A 2018 purchase of 14,500 acres of prime eastern Washington farmland – which is traditional Yakama territory – for $171m helped him get that title.