[michaelt]

> There are people (free market people, not communists) who'd argue [...] you should only be able to lease land from the community around you.

At first this sounded like an extreme point of view to me - then I realised how often I've heard people saying there's nothing wrong or exploitative about being a landlord. We, as a society, see nothing wrong with people spending their entire lives living on rented property.

[imtringued]

The landlord can't exploit you, only the land owner can. It just turns out that they are usually the same person. In the case of the homeowner they are not.

Also, if we consider taxation exploitative then we should limit it to resource based taxes like land value tax.