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Old 12-31-2020, 12:08 PM
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I think most, if not all, posters to this thread would agree that the developers have shown incredible vision in planning and building the largest, most successful retirement community in the world. The “developers” are actually dozens of interrelated corporations, and not a group of altruistic rulers. Those corporations are formed to protect the shareholders from liability and to produce profit for them. There is nothing wrong inherently, or in reality, with these corporations or their shareholder/officers. But, invariably, there will be times that the corporate interests and those of the residents are not in alignment. That is not an indictment, but simply a reality of the interests of each entity. That is the reason for the POA, as an influential representative for the resident’s interests. That is not anti-developer any more than the judicial branch of government is anti-legislative. I did not post the POA notes that I happened upon as a political statement. I simply found it to be a significant and interesting document of historical value.
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