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mrguyoramayesterday at 7:47 PM1 replyview on HN

Collect rent.

That's all rich people do. The premise of capitalism is that the people best at collecting rent should also be in total control of resource allocation.


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93poyesterday at 10:26 PM

i would guess it's less about rent seeking and more about him making a bet on safe places to store billions of dollars. there's a lot of economic collapse that can happen where farm land remains valuable in a way that housing stock, office buildings, or MSFT stock wouldn't

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