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by robertlagrant 1349 days ago
Sure, and people buy them up, just as they buy land. They're a finite resource.
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They are an elastic resource. The amount being created is responsive to demand.

Also, they're substitutable; if people can't afford classic cars, they'll buy art, or wine, or yachts, or Rolexes, or a thousand other luxury goods. Land is only imperfectly substitutable, and it substitution has definite economic costs.