Um, why do people get to own land, whose creation ages ago the "owners" contributed nothing to? All financing schemes, be they debt or equity, should only exis

Um, why do people get to own land, whose creation ages ago the "owners" contributed nothing to? All financing schemes, be they debt or equity, should only exist to promote the creation of useful stuff. Everything else is unproductive bullshit. > What if you are old and have run out of money? At least you’ll still have your house. I've had it with these poor widow(er) / poor retiree arguments. Housing can not be both affordable and a good investment. Maybe we need a one-time cash transfer to compensate people currently balls-deep in the current system to get the fuck out of the way, but this absolutely is not an argument to continue to turn a blind eye to our continued abject failures at good land use and just allow more generations empathy-arising "middle Americans" to become the next status-quo-justifying boogiemen. > actually, I’m not totally opposed to having all property go to auction upon death Ah we agree on this one :) > This would allow people to be able to never worry about losing their home during their lifetime while also not creating a dynasty of ownership. The problem is that the population grows during people's lifetime, and so the inefficiencies magnify. Put simply, we need empty-nesters to always be downsizing to conserve land.