[s1artibartfast]

Housing is and always has been an investment. I think you are objecting to the rate of return on that investment and incentives.

Even homesteading a log cabin on free land or building a mud hut is an investment. Houses take significant labor and materials to construct and there is no way around this. Add and land which can either be created nor destroyed and this only becomes more obvious.

[wahnfrieden]

Graeber & Wengrow would like a word

[s1artibartfast]

I looked up the reference, but dont see the relevance.

[wahnfrieden]

dawn of everything or their academic papers expand on historical social freedoms when it came to living under abundance or scarcity, housing and mobility, resource sharing, lack of hierarchical structures even at scale and after discovering agriculture

[s1artibartfast]

I obviously havent read it, but I beleive my point is more general.

Housing is an investment because it represents significant input in material and labor which only returns ulity slowly over time. It doesnt matter if are living in a commune, capitalist society, or alone. That only changes who invests in it.