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Land, Shelter, & Social Justice
The True Richest Man In the World
It is not Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
According to a recent article in the publication, The New Internationalist, the King of England owns 1/6 of the land on earth. While the article was written when the Queen of England was alive, we now know a king exists legally at least.
His name is Charles. King Charles. He now controls that 1/6 of the planet. The Queen died.
The article was inspired by a book written by Kevin Cahill. Cahill, a writer for the New Statesman, has published a book called Who Owns the World? It is in that book where Cahill breaks it down how one person owns roughly 6 billion acres of land.
Cahill wrote an article too. Here is a singularly importantly quote from the article:
“The world’s primary feudal landowner is Queen Elizabeth II. She is Queen of 32 countries, head of a Commonwealth of 54 countries in which a quarter of the world’s population lives, and legal owner of about 6.6 billion acres of land, one-sixth of the earth’s land surface. Her position is a relic of the last and largest land empire in history, rumours of whose demise would appear to be somewhat premature based on her position and possessions. But her power is real, or at least legally real, and it…
