[tudorw]

It's a little different as land is finite, I could own 100 phones, it would not change your option to buy one, if I bought 100 houses in your town, you might have to move. Here in the UK for example, crucial support staff, teachers, nurses, policeman, are paid by the state, they are having to move further from their place of work to find affordable housing, so they commute further and its hard for organisations to be reactive as staff need to be on site, not on call, which costs all of us more taxes, so I think if you buy a house, you 'rent' a piece of the land from the sovereign entity that protects residents, if you are not utilising it you are a burden.

[foota]

Phones are finite too, though less so than land.

[tudorw]

it's a fair point, they use some rare stuff, anyone worked out if we can all have one based on current population growth / phone use growth ?

[foota]

Probably. There's already a _lot_ of phones. The question is how new of phones everyone want.

The issue imo isn't how many resources we have, but how much capital we're willing to devote to phone production.