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Monday, April 03, 2006
It's been reported today that Bill Gates is the largest shareholder in Canadian National Railway Corp., at 5.8%.
As much as he's like to say that it's because it's a modern, diversified company and that they got a lotta computers in dem trains nowadays, Gates also has a special affinity with railway barons of days gone by:
- Quasi-monopolistic control over a "choke point" in the economy - the world can't get by without him
- Empire built on an infrastructure that required massive advance government investment
- Eventually, they try to bust you up
Posted by
Andrew Goodman
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D'oh!
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