You 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 especi

You 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.