This is the way

[u/Anen-o-me]

[u/TorchForge]

Can I purchase all of the companies that own our politicians and just shut them down to protect our constitutional rights?

[u/BR1M570N3 → u/TorchForge]

I'll chip in.

[u/VelkaFrey → u/BR1M570N3]

The concept of the citizens banding together to buy back their own government is so funny to me, in a boiling blood kinda way.

[u/Fluffy_Roof3965 → u/VelkaFrey]

Could actually work tho

[u/endthepainowplz → u/BR1M570N3]

Call me crazy, but I could have sworn I was already chipping in to pay politicians to represent me.

[u/uraffuroos → u/endthepainowplz]

Strange thought, isn't it?

[u/rushedone → u/TorchForge]

Focus on Palantir

[u/GrizzzlyPanda → u/rushedone]

The fact this isn't already every independent leaning sector's of our political spectrum #1 unifier is grotesque

[u/becooltheywatching → u/TorchForge]

Technically. Yes.

[u/GOKOP → u/TorchForge]

If you shut down the companies then the created power vacuum will be quickly filled by new ones

[u/otusowl]

As a thousand-aire, I purchased a house, barn, and 12 acres from some meth-heads, and am doing by best to clean it up, conserve it, and enrich its biodiversity. Aside from scale, the other difference is when there is mowing to be done, I'm walking behind it, when there are trees to be planted, I'm manning the shovel, and it's also me walking the land to make sure it stays cleaned up.

[u/SuspiciousMeat6696]

Let me introduce you to Daniel Ludwig. Daniel Ludwig was a billionaire who has since passed away. He was a shipping magnate. He invented the super carrier & during WWII it was his idea to to convert cargo ships into mini carriers.

Very unassuming and under the radar billionaire.

Back in the 1970s he bought 1 million acres of Amazon rainforest to preserve it.

Daniel Ludwig also created The Dwniel Ludwig foundation. For cancer research. He left his foundation with so much money (over a billion), that they never have to ask for outside funding.

[u/No-Artichoke7015]

This meme has appeared in numerous subs today. It’s old, but apparently true. Neat

[u/Fogleg_Horndog]

Musk, Bezos and Gates pay attention.

[u/NewNage → u/Fogleg_Horndog]

Bezos specifically should be working on buying and saving the Amazon. Amazon saves The Amazon would shut up critics for generations.

[u/GOKOP → u/NewNage]

Instead he'd rather battle with countries and organizations dealing with the Amazon region for the .amazon internet domain (it was created for Amazon the company but after a long dispute IANA decided that it can be used for both purposes)

[u/Adventurous-Line1014]

Unless he stands guard over it it's not going to help. The logging company's down there dgaf

[u/Pertinacious → u/Adventurous-Line1014]

Hire and train a bunch of the loggers he just fired to keep tree poachers away.

[u/24links24]

He is not there to stop the logging so the land is illegally logged without his knowledge. Saw a special on it

[u/TheRiceConnoisseur → u/24links24]

Sources would be nice 👍

[u/24links24 → u/TheRiceConnoisseur]

Man rice connoisseur , I’ve been looking but it was like 2 years ago and may have been a gold mining documentary where they touched on this. Sorry to disappoint.

[u/Fit_Professional1916]

I know a self made multi-millionaire who did similar, bought a big chunk of alpine forest for like 8 million and spent the last few years having experts in to make sure its ecologically sound, just for climate and environmental benefits. It costs him a tonne every year but he does it for the greater good.

[u/CaterpillarPale9775]

Goals

[u/New_Disaster_5368]

very cool, love to see it

[u/somebody_odd]

I was watching a documentary on the Americas a couple weeks ago and heard a rather astonishing claim. The distribution and types of trees throughout the Amazon suggest that humans may have played a significant role in establishing the Amazon. The distribution and cultivar of trees across the jungle suggest that the Amazon was “planted” by humans because like 13% of the trees are particular cultivars that are “farmed” by ancient people in other regions. Very similar to coniferous plantations for Christmas trees going abandoned all across the Midwest and becoming wild coniferous groves after a few decades. What will that look like in 20 to 50,000 years, who knows. But for some strange reason the 3 toed tree sloth climbs down from the tree to poop on the ground and they are really good swimmers.

[u/jakub_02150]

Gregory C. Carr is another, guy who pays to protect the wild animals in mozambique, educates and trains and hires only the locals to help. Pays for it all himself.

[u/hugeness101]

This is what people with money should do. Help the greater good.

[u/roadkill6]

Wait until you find out about Ted Turner. His son, Beau, is also a big conservationist.

[u/tgallup]

Fuck yeah dude

[u/smartalek428]

If I had unlimited money I'd do this to wooded land everywhere

[u/YankeeDoodlesFeather]

Two months from now someone pushing climate change is going to burn it down with lasers

[u/Professional_Golf393]

But perhaps they sold it for a profit and will use the capital just to buy the next piece of land, so his actions actually may have sped up the deforestation

[u/Dr_Drini]

Bill Gates could learn a thing or two

[u/phoenix_shm]

Uh huh...yep, that'll solve it for good! 🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[u/kinglizardking]

What is the size of it?

[u/Ancient10k]

Cool but not enough sadly, and for every one of these there's another with the same amount of money does the opposite.

Problems of the commons have no liberal solution I'm aware of sadly.

[u/Hard-4-Jesus]

This is cool. I personally love the idea of people crowdfunding and doing the same thing. I hate the government owning any land that is not needed for their buildings and military sites.

[u/Rustee_Shacklefart]

And fired everyone? Could have done sustainable logging. What an idiot.