Only if you consider “Highest and Best Use” to be that which is most profitable for the property owners, rather than that which is in society’s long-term intere

Only if you consider “Highest and Best Use” to be that which is most profitable for the property owners, rather than that which is in society’s long-term interest. Of course, capitalist economists work very, very hard to conflate “economic efficiency” with “society’s long-term interest” in peoples’ minds—to make people forget that an economy is just part of a society that should serve that society’s goals. They’d prefer if you thought an economy was a society and that all other things were subordinate to it.