Friday, March 12, 2010

Heritage > wealth; a modern-day calculation

In Australia there's a man named Jeffrey Lee who could make 5 billion dollars with a snap of his fingers, simply by choosing to sell his land, which sits on a tremendously valuable uranium deposit. Lee is the last remaining member of the Djok clan of Australian Aborigines, and this land has been in his family for generations. So despite the fact that he could probably own his own island by tomorrow if he so chose, Lee is holding on to his ancestral land and all the history that goes with it, hoping to pass on this legacy to his children someday.

Read the full story here.

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