Re: Infinite money

The Ghost In The Machine wrote:

Land is in fixed supply and is not created by labor.

False on both counts. The Japanese in particular created a rather large
island for one of their newer airports.

They build it on their own national waters. If by extension we call "land"
the portion of the Earth surface you control/own/share, his assertion it is
absolutely true.


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