72% of land or 20.6 million hectors is either farmland or forest. Famers own large amounts of land but earn wages far less than average. I have a buddy growing 2,100 acres of brocolli, onions, and beans. And he is barely squeaking by. Owning land is overrated.There is very little low value land in the UK. There are 67 million people in an area the size of Michigan.But what's the land value?? It's like out here in the west there's a lot of government land but most of it is pretty much useless.I found this very interesting
70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army
70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror's army
Norman descendants are still doing very fine in today's Britain.www.zmescience.com
It suggests that the effects of privilege have long lasting, permanent effects that can last hundreds of years. If this is true, the claims of black people that they are still damaged by the effects of slavery should be taken very seriously.
It is NOTHING like "out here in the west". At all.
The cheapest land in the UK (in the Scottish Highlands) sells for around £4,500/acre (~US$5,700).
When I was a boy we owned a dozen or so low rent homes and and three farms, less than 30 acres all, but barely made enough income from all of that to survive. This was in NE NC. My family, who owned them all jointly with my uncle, sold all of them for a pittance and my parents basically had only their own home and social security.72% of land or 20.6 million hectors is either farmland or forest. Famers own large amounts of land but earn wages far less than average. I have a buddy growing 2,100 acres of brocolli, onions, and beans. And he is barely squeaking by. Owning land is overrated.There is very little low value land in the UK. There are 67 million people in an area the size of Michigan.But what's the land value?? It's like out here in the west there's a lot of government land but most of it is pretty much useless.I found this very interesting
70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army
70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror's army
Norman descendants are still doing very fine in today's Britain.
It suggests that the effects of privilege have long lasting, permanent effects that can last hundreds of years. If this is true, the claims of black people that they are still damaged by the effects of slavery should be taken very seriously.
It is NOTHING like "out here in the west". At all.
The cheapest land in the UK (in the Scottish Highlands) sells for around £4,500/acre (~US$5,700).
Affirmative action was put forth to accelerate the erasure of the caste lines between whites and blacks. In order to erase the caste lines, blacks needed to be allowed an accelerated path towards opportunities, otherwise, advances in education and employment would have been slower and required several more generations to make opportunities more available based on relative qualifications. Let's be clear, blacks aren't genetically inferior, I honestly think a lot of people don't get that. So when the statistics show massive incongruities based on race, that implies outside pressures are "fucking things up". In America's case: economic inertia, criminal justice system, poverty.
Yep. My extended family has owned 600 acres of forestland in the Sierra Foothills for 99 years now (starting with my long dead grandfather). We made some money in 1957 and in 1974 selling some timber, and in 1982 we sold some rock for emergency road building for a small chunk of change. Due to the collapse of the timber industry in California in recent years and a major wildfire that swept through in 2020 we are unlikely to ever make any more timber sales. So, that's 96 years of negative net income (paying for taxes, insurance and maintenance) and 3 years of income. The land is essentially worthless as a moneymaker, but the recreational value is priceless.72% of land or 20.6 million hectors is either farmland or forest. Famers own large amounts of land but earn wages far less than average. I have a buddy growing 2,100 acres of brocolli, onions, and beans. And he is barely squeaking by. Owning land is overrated.There is very little low value land in the UK. There are 67 million people in an area the size of Michigan.But what's the land value?? It's like out here in the west there's a lot of government land but most of it is pretty much useless.I found this very interesting
70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army
70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror's army
Norman descendants are still doing very fine in today's Britain.
It suggests that the effects of privilege have long lasting, permanent effects that can last hundreds of years. If this is true, the claims of black people that they are still damaged by the effects of slavery should be taken very seriously.
It is NOTHING like "out here in the west". At all.
The cheapest land in the UK (in the Scottish Highlands) sells for around £4,500/acre (~US$5,700).
You should watch Chris Rock's take on this. Its hilarious....youtube has it.Look, when I say racists white people I'm not talking about you unless you're a racists white person. You don't see me jumping to the defense of niggas that want to see me dead on these streets everyday? Fuck them niggas. Sorry if this language sounds Unkempt and raw I'm just not running what I say through chat gpt this time.
Edit: this post wasn't meant for Loren it was a public service announcement.
It isn't a hate crime to refuse admittance of a potential student because their scores are lower than other applicants. I'd imagine that if only test scores and grades were used to admit students in the 1970s and 1980s, we'd see a much different ethnic distribution of students in US Colleges today. The whole point of Affirmative Action is to admit the thumb was on the scale 20 years ago and that thumb impacts applicants filing for admission today. It isn't about discriminate treatment of race, disregarding any care for qualifications.
I hate analogies, but I see this as it being illegal for blacks to learn how to swim. And then one day that law is repealed, and we push all the blacks into the pool to thrash about and maybe not drown... but we'll charge any white people that try to actively drown one of them. Then we give the best swimmers in the pool jobs. It is overlooking what is required to become a professional. It isn't as simple as "Sorry, we won't discriminate based on race anymore", when that discrimination directly influences the metrics used for propelling people into the opportunities of professions.
Yup. I need to rewatch that again. CR is a comedy genius.Bring the pain
It's really not.
$5700/acre is an extremely good price in the US.There is very little low value land in the UK. There are 67 million people in an area the size of Michigan.But what's the land value?? It's like out here in the west there's a lot of government land but most of it is pretty much useless.I found this very interesting
70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army
70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror's army
Norman descendants are still doing very fine in today's Britain.
It suggests that the effects of privilege have long lasting, permanent effects that can last hundreds of years. If this is true, the claims of black people that they are still damaged by the effects of slavery should be taken very seriously.
It is NOTHING like "out here in the west". At all.
The cheapest land in the UK (in the Scottish Highlands) sells for around £4,500/acre (~US$5,700).
