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by TulliusCicero 668 days ago
And that's a good thing, because unlike other valuables, you can't just create or mine more land. Land is inherently valuable based on its location, you can't just get more of it somewhere and import it in.

There needs to be pressure to actually make productive use of land so that people don't just uselessly sit on it.

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> you can't just create or mine more land

Sure you can [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reclamation_in_the_Neth...

Ha, fair point. Though even in that case, you can only create more land at a specific point, you can't move it around like a commodity.