The thing everyone appears to be missing is that you don't need land lords. They don't produce anything anyone needs. The point of the whole mechanism is to fo

The thing everyone appears to be missing is that you don't need land lords. They don't produce anything anyone needs. The point of the whole mechanism is to force out less wealthy people and/or with smaller income and replace them with more wealthy ones and/or ones with more income. If this is a nice thing to do or desirable aside, there are better formulas to accomplish the same. You could for example tax housing heavily then burn the money on live tv. That way you will at least have the advantage of configuring how wealthy the citizens need to be.