As technology proceeds in a patent-obsessed world, the fruitsof innovation flow to the owners of the capital and invention, forming a whole new rentier class.
Dole was founded in Hawaii in 1851, according to the company's website, which brags of being the "world's largest producer and marketer" offruits and vegetables.
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Instead, on his return to Pakistan on the eve ofWorld War II he borrowed money from his father to set up a factory to dehydrate and can vegetables and fruits, which he then sold to the British troops.