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Re:Abandoned South Dakota Town on Sale for $250k by empthought on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @08:15AM (#10662719)
"Where are the wealthy who would like to try a bold experiment in communalism, anarchism, feminism or whatnot?"

Flippant answer is that the two groups—"the wealthy," and people interested in that sort of thing—have almost no overlap.

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Re:Abandoned South Dakota Town on Sale for $250k by mbil on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @08:42AM (#10662836)
An example of an exception to that rule of thumb: Robert Owen, a successful industrialist who became one of the founders of utopian socialism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen

http://www.ushistory.org/us/26b.asp

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Re:Abandoned South Dakota Town on Sale for $250k by empthought on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @11:25AM (#10663868)
I don't think someone who died in 1858 is an exception to the modern composition of the wealthy population.
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Re:Abandoned South Dakota Town on Sale for $250k by netcan on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @09:32AM (#10663106)
It might also mean that the latter group simply doesn't exist, not in the money-where-your-mouth-is way. It's one thing to be interested in these things in a "someone-should-do-something way".

But I don't really think either of these are true. Bill Gates has some big "political" goals, societal scale ambitions. Elon Musk too, though he seems to like for profit companies as a vehicle. Some charities get substantial endowments and many in the leaser classes dedicate a lot of their time, attention & money to them.

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