Well done. If you want to pursue this topic further, I recommend the book, "America's 60 Families" by Ferdinand Lundberg (c 1930's). One of the main schemes of philanthropic organizations is to raise the value of properties owned by private companies. When property values in an urban area become blighted, then buy up all of the surrounding properties and 'donate' the central land to the city for a park or sports complex (paid for by the city), and suddenly, all of the surrounding properties become prime bait for gentrification and re-purposed Superfund sites turned into apartments.

Farms used to be a big tax dodge for doctors and lawyers (especially horses: special tax codes for those who 'train' horses because they never make an actual profit). Now, there are so few, large farms that farming is really just another part of the banking system (When you owe the bank 10,000 dollars, you have a problem. When you owe the bank 100,000,000 dollars, you just drive trucks for the bank/taxpayers/debt complex.).

After "Families", the next significant book is "Empire of Oil" by Harvey O'Connor. Written in the '50s, it quantifies how much of the government was owned by oil companies when we only used 1M bbl of oil per day. Now, those companies are providing 100 times that, and the money is being used for Potemkin villages like Dubai and vapid hurricane bait places in south Texas, not to mention terrorism and dictatorial war machines in the Meddle East (talk about philanthropy!) that quid pro quo 'invest' in Wall Street. Instead of tax breaks, they get planes and bombs, while we get 'jobs'.

None of which anyone really needs in a post-industrial, roboticised farming system.