Oprah Winfrey, who owns 2,000 acres of land on Maui and lives there part time, says she is going to make a major donation towards recovery efforts “once all the smoke and ash has settled and we figure out what the rebuilding is going to look like.”
@yashar Like when I was a kid and Warren Buffet said he was giving away all his money? I’m 40 now.
@yashar No one who doesn’t have Hawaiian blood should own more than the average Hawaiian owns period
@yashar Oprah owning that land keeps it away from the developers that want to crowd it with homes, condos, and hotels. Few understand this.
@yashar She and other billionaires and developers have been pressuring the residents to sell for years, they banded together and have refused all offers. Makes you wonder. She is not the benevolent queen they portray her as.
@yashar It’s gonna look like a 15 minute city, with no gas cars
@yashar Go figure? She wants to fix up the area where she lives. I don’t consider it particularly generous.
@yashar Hazmat teams need to clean that toxic mess up. Her land value just took a dive