Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-england-thousand-secret-landowners-author

by firebacon • 7 years ago

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vivekd• 7 years ago

Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them

Matthew 25:29

This reminds me of the power law that Peter Thiel talks about. He says that in any given field, a few people will dominate and the rest will get nothing. In Theil's example, one or two companies will dominate a given market while everyone else scrambles after a small piece of the pie.

But this seems to apply to other areas too. For example, a small group of composers wrote most of the repertoire of classical music that's played, while the rest of the composers are forgotten and hardly played. And of those composers, it's only a small number of their works that is widely played.

It seems to be a rule of the world that distribution is unequal, a small group of people do everything and the rest do almost nothing. A small group of people get everything, the rest get almost nothing.

HeavenBanned• 7 years ago

Pareto Principle.

anon46121• 7 years ago

Not really surprised. Farmers are less than 1% of the population and most land is farm land.

zamazingo• 7 years ago

The subtitle of tfa:

Research by author reveals corporations and aristocrats are the biggest landowners

geezerjay• 7 years ago

Among the corporations how many are agriculture corporations?

perilunar3• 7 years ago

Aristocracy and gentry: 30%

perilunar3• 7 years ago

Appalling really. It's almost as if those Georgists are onto something.

ErotemeObelus2• 7 years ago

Could you imagine wanting to rename every male and female "George"? Those Georgists are once more on their throne, one bony hand clutching their terrible rods.

perilunar3• 7 years ago

?? Not talking about the Kings George I-VI, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population

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