Your interpretation is off. Any “asset” is valuable to own because what the owner chosen to do with it that creates value for others. In order to be valuable, y

Your interpretation is off. Any “asset” is valuable to own because what the owner chosen to do with it that creates value for others. In order to be valuable, you have to create value. You don’t get to trap people in your commercial real estate as prisoners and force them to pay you rent, as your net analogy implies.