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Land might be finite but we're nowhere near its limits. I once read that you could easily fit every human building ever built in a 10km stretch of the Grand Can
by candiodari 5y ago
Land might be finite but we're nowhere near its limits. I once read that you could easily fit every human building ever built in a 10km stretch of the Grand Canyon. So let's carefully say we can have 1e9 times the number of buildings we have now.
- BirdieNZ 5y agoDesirable locations are finite, though. People want to live near jobs, infrastructure, amenities, their friends and family. There is limited supply of locations that are near to those things, so land functions as a monopoly.
- ethanbond 5y agoYou don’t need to be anywhere near a resource’s exhaustion for its finitude to affect how people value it. Look at any valuable natural resource. That’s especially true of land where, as the other commenter says, all land is decidedly not created equal. There are very good reasons more people want to live in Manhattan than in Death Valley.