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How This Billionaire Couple STOLE California's Water Supply | The Class Room ft. ‪@SecondThought‬ [08:08 | DEC 20 2022 | More Perfect Union] (youtu.be)
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While 40 million Californians suffer through unprecedented drought, one billionaire couple owns a massive share of the state's water system, largely seized in a series of secretive meetings two decades ago.

That system was largely paid for by the very taxpayers whose water these billionaires hold hostage. The Resnicks are the biggest farmers in California–as of 2007 they owned four San Francisco’s worth of farmland. Nearly half of Americans buy at least one of their products: pistachios, POM pomegranate juice, mandarins, flowers, and more.

It’s all under one massive umbrella: The Wonderful Company, a privately owned company worth at least 5 billion dollars. The majority owners, the Resnicks, are worth at least 8 billion.

We dug into how Lynda and Stewart Resnick were able to seize control of what should be a shared public resource with ‪@SecondThought‬ on this latest episode of "How They Got Rich" by The Class Room at More Perfect Union.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

I know it’s important to know this information, but it makes me so angry, then feel so helpless when I learn it. Literally nothing I can do about this.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 30 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

There needs to he a general strike, or a left wing Trumpesque figure willing to run on the "make billionaires illegal" ticket, because this shit is getting ridiculous.

Pray for another Luigi soon 🙏

[–] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Yep. How quickly we could all change things if people could just abstain from the products and services these shit heads provide for even a couple months or maybe forever. Let these things fail and send a message. Instead everyone thinks their individual use of these services/products is insignificant.

[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

owned four San Francisco’s worth of farmland.

I’m not from California. Could someone convert this into the standard American measurement: Football fields?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

SF is 7mi X 7mi, so they own 28mi X 28mi of land. About the size of NYC and LA combined if I'm doing this right.

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago

7x7 is 48 square miles, and four times that is about 200 square miles (520 sq km). But the area would be 14x14 miles.

[–] thisisdee@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I might be wrong but I think 28x28 is 16x(7x7) instead of 4x. It should be 7x7x4 instead of (7x4)x(7x4)

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

That lot of fucking land. These fucks should be strung up.

[–] lowleekun@ani.social 2 points 21 hours ago

Eat. The. Rich. Now.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 19 hours ago

Second-thought is what a tankie on YouTube looks like haha