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by PaulDavisThe1st 1873 days ago
Land is something that comes in an (essentially) fixed supply, and is (almost never) human created.

Chairs are created by human (or machine) labor.

Since the provenance of the owned thing is entirely different in each case, it seems likely the legal/social/moral understanding of ownership in each case would be quite different.