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Land is a finite natural resource. Owning more homes than you can live in should get exponentially more expensive the more you purchase. Imagine if we sold chu
by causi 5y ago
Land is a finite natural resource. Owning more homes than you can live in should get exponentially more expensive the more you purchase. Imagine if we sold chunks of the sea or of the sky off like we sell chunks of land.
- dcolkitt 5y agoThe cost of raw land may get exponentially more expensive, but the cost of higher density building is at most marginally higher than low density building. For example 50 story skyscrapers are actually slightly cheaper per square foot than 10 story buildings on a per square foot basis. Without artificial restrictions on density, the cost of housing is essentially invariant to the cost of raw land.
- googlryas 5y agoDoes this same argument hold true for farming? Should large farms become increasingly more expensive for people to own, because they are growing more food than they need for themselves?
- causi 5y agoAbsolutely. Break up the giant farming companies that've destroyed family farms in the US.