This is where the tech billionaires are spreading themselves

Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan might have taken this as a role model when they bought a former sugar cane plantation on Kauai, the westernmost inhabited island of Hawaii, for $100 million at the end of 2014. Instead, however, they initially messed it up with the neighbors when they raised an existing wall around the property and had fences erected. This, residents outraged, made access to two popular beaches, including an unofficial nudist beach, difficult. And it cut off locals from their mini-plots that were on Zuckerberg’s land. This, coupled with lawsuits once morest the owners who did not want to sell their land to Zuckerberg, and violent security guards, made for negative headlines worldwide.