I still don't understand how Larry Ellison could just buy his own Hawaiian island. It's so obviously wrong and bad

Ellison is just the latest in a chain of Lanai owners stretching back to 1909 or thereabouts. It's not a good story. www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...

An island sold for a dollar? How Lānaʻi came under private ownership for the first time

Before James Dole transformed Lānaʻi into one of the world's largest pineapple plantations, another man set his sights on the island. In 1909, businessman William Irwin bought nearly the entire island...