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Land and wealth: An allegory of two countries

By XN Iraki

One family in America owns 600,000 acres of land, which is the size of Rhode Island, one of the states. In fact, most prominent Americans own ranches, big swathes of land, some in beautiful mountainous Montana, while others are in the semi-arid New Mexico.

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