I think you're right that it would require a revolution, but we've had those before and come out OK, so it's not so far-fetched or scary as it sounds. It's defi

I think you're right that it would require a revolution, but we've had those before and come out OK, so it's not so far-fetched or scary as it sounds. It's definitely not going to be voted into law by any local or state legislature without great civil unrest to motivate it. However, as the landowning class concentrates and we run out of valuable "frontier", it becomes an inevitability. As a history lesson, we used to have feudalism in New York from before the revolutionary war up into the 1800s. It was a grandfathered-in political-economic system initiated by the Dutch to encourage high-class immigration and patronize friends of the governor, which the English expanded and the nascent U.S. extended to curry favor with the wealthy families who'd supported the revolution. That system, too, was really valuable for the people who had that privilege. But eventually they were outnumbered and overthrown, in a movement that was pretty revolutionary [1]. By the time it happened, we had innovated new ways to develop wealth that didn't require rent-seeking landlordship and monopolies (this was the era of the industrial revolution), so it'd become significantly less politically-tasteful, even in comparatively bourgeois and aristocratic circles, to depend on these ancient monopolies for access to wealth. But, ultimately, it was a popular (and, at times, violent) revolution that tipped the scales towards reform. I think it'll probably happen at the municipal or state level before it happens at the federal level. Most likely in NY (again!) or CA, if I were a betting person. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rent_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rent_War