> in most cases the landowner isn't concerned about houses so much as they are about groups generating revenue that they can get a cut of. It goes beyond that.

> in most cases the landowner isn't concerned about houses so much as they are about groups generating revenue that they can get a cut of. It goes beyond that. "Houses" or "factories", the rent-extraction doesn't have to be from you. Following the analogy, the reason you shouldn't build a house is that the landowner might find someone else interested in building a lucrative shopping mall in the area, and you will get evicted mercilessly.