Tech Billionaires’ Shocking Plot for Rural America

Tech billionaires are waging a hostile takeover of rural Northern California. They want to build their own private city in Solano County, and they’re crushing farmers with lawsuits to do it. Local activists delayed them last month, but the fight has just begun.
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[davidd]

As a solano resident, can confirm this video accurately represents the struggle in the county.
Remember folks, they're not out to help you. They're out to own you.

[kenw]

How can they accuse the farmers of price fixing when there is no price? The farmers don’t want to sell 🤷‍♂️

[Gunderblinx]

Billionaires trying to claim regular people are price fixing because they wont sell there families land to them. All the while price fixing everything is disgusting

[tlflora]

when they gave human rights to corporations, people LOST thier own right

[RoseyFuture]

The arrogance and entitlement of these billionaires is stratospheric .

[billy]

You should not be able to sue someone for not selling. End of story. No is no.

[petiteange]

The irony of big corporations suing small farmers for price fixing.

[stevanrozic]

Farmers stand your ground. Cheers from Canada.

[Elena-rtyu]

Problem is the judges not defending the citizens, but siding with bullies, as long as their hands are greased

[generaluse]

Billionaires did not get all that money by caring about their neighbors.

[kdavidsmith]

Billionaires believe that their wealth means they are superior humans. They believe they are moral superior, intellectually superior, and physically superior and therefore should be allowed to force their will on everyone. I hope they not only take major defeat in court but are also required to pay the farmers' legal fees.

[ceterumcenseo-bl]

The most disgusting thing about billionaires is their insatiable greed - way, way more than enough is still not enough. Sick.

[Gunderblinx]

Billionaires claim they will offer good paying jobs. But considers $10 an hour "good paying"

[BobbyHickey]

Our justice system is broken. These cases should be immediately dismissed against those that do not wish to sell.

[zammmerjammer]

This is why billionaires should not exist. No one individual should have that much money and influence with zero accountability.

[rexpeterson]

Most folks here do not know that the rule of thumb for developing a city is it requires all the water from an IRRIGATED Farm of the same area, not a dryland farm. Somewhere there is a water grab going on also.

[TheeMuddman]

Red or Blue, billionaires are not your friends.

[thisismeT]

They should be in jail for using lawfare and harassment against the property owners.

[sumiland]

It's simple. Billionaires' goals are to create a owners and slaves society. It's happening in hyperdrive in Florida. I grew up in "silicon valley". It was orchards and corn and strawberry fields as far as the eye could see. It was lush, green and cool. I watched the orchards ripped out, the fields plowed under and the valley covered in asphalt and concrete.

[justinfowler]

Because those lands get 90% of the water rights.