Wealthy Tycoons Buy Rights to Blue Gold

Wealthy individuals and large corporations are buying water rights for some of America and even for the world's largest aquifer. Among these people, Oil bigger T. Boone Pickens thinks that water or "blue gold" is new oil. Roberts County is located in the area of ​​Texas, America's largest aquifer. The Ogallala aquifer extends from Texas to South Dakota. Pickens is buying land, now it is the largest landowner in the county, covering 68,000 acres.

Leave Carlos Slim and Warren Buffett. For 20 wealthiest rich people in history, these wealthy giants have not even participated. From the American industrialists of the 19th century to the kings of Africa once owned the gold half of the world, as the major economists and historians have guessed, the wealthiest people in history suffer inflation I will adapt.

The wealthy elite of the late nineteenth century consisted of robbery aristocrats and industrialists who accumulated their wealth as industry leaders. Both can be defined as a business giant, but there is a big difference in how to fate. The term "baroness baron" can be traced back to the Middle Ages. Robbers and aristocrats often use ruthless and problematic methods, such as eliminating their competition and using predatory practices to develop monopolies in their industry. Usually, they have little sympathy for workers. But industry leaders are usually philanthropists. They create wealth in a way that will benefit society, such as providing more employment opportunities and increasing productivity.

Most people today say that money is the most important factor. The term "gold" refers not only to gold itself but also to general wealth. Europeans want to explore because they think they will enrich them. For example, they believe that it will be possible to trade directly with Asian spice islands, European people are the source of precious spices that can only be purchased through Muslim brokers. Therefore, exploration is seeking greater profit. Personal and desire for the glory of the country also drives exploration. Individual explorers want to be a new way and those who will gain the glory of finding new land later. European monarchs want the glory of many empire states of the foreign empire. Therefore, part of the reason for exploration is the right to brag.