That is exactly my point. And if that trend continues, there will eventually be nothing left but tenant farmers, and wealthy investor landowners. All the tenant farmers will be competing heavily for land they will never have an opportunity to buy. And they will be relegated to "peasant class", growing their commodities for less than they cost to produce, because they will have no ability to leverage their production in any meaningful way. This is a trend that started a long time ago, but one that has become much accelerated in the last 20-30 years, where the balance of physical work based lifestyles (manufacturing, farming, transportation) has been exchanged for a computer traded investment based lifestyle. A much higher percentage of our GDP is now based in "trade" and "high tech"... we've shipped most of the manufacturing, and much of the VALUE of farming even, overseas.
In our "investments" we now trust for our daily bread, for those with financial prowess. Not so much in God, and in daily hard work to accomplish it. There's no limitation on how much one individual can accomplish with "investment income", but there IS, if your "daily bread" is dependent upon "individual physical laboring". And when that happens, those with "non-labor intensive" wealth are able to create a peasant state for all the others, simply by being "philanthropic".... thereby creating dependency upon THEM for their well being. "You'll be fine, they tell the rest, because
I will take care of you...
I will give you 'handouts'... i.e.: charity... welfare. And then you will be happy and well off enough!"
Can't you see how much better off the society as a whole would be WITHOUT the "subsidy crutches", but with real opportunity for reward and realistic compensation for real physical labor instead? Subsidies become a very effective method of trapping those receiving them into dependency upon them, and into a meager subsistence, living... continuing to produce essential commodities even the wealthy must have... but producing them at a loss, which will then be made up through "subsidies" given in amount as the wealthy deem acceptable, ...just enough to keep the peasants "producing" them.
One thing that is certain... land
is a limited resource. They aren't making more of it, and the population WILL continue to rise, therefore, land space becomes more and more in demand.