If you look at history, this is an ancient pattern.

In Judaeo-Christian scriptures, the prohibitions against anyone acquiring ownership of land go all the way back to the Torah.

Though like pretty much every religious prohibition on behaviors which the well-to-do want to do - those commandments fall under the "we never talk about that part" rule.

EDIT:

- Please note my "against anyone ACQUIRING ownership of" phrasing, above.

- Details are in Leviticus, Chapter 25

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WillPostForFood 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

There is no biblical prohibition against owning land, but there is plenty of debate, discussion and grappling with the problems of ownership and accumulation. It shows it always an issue, and rules and laws and social norms always need to be debated and changed.

	▲	legitster 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		In the Levitical law, there was specifically a concept that all of the land in Israel be split up equally among families. And that ownership of the land reverts every 49 years. So "buying" land was tantamount to a lease. There is actually some interesting scholarly work that shows such a system would work perfectly fine within a modern capitalist system - it would reduce inequality and neatly lines up with natural debt cycles.

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KaiserPro 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

owning land? no, holding debt for longer than 7 years very much so.

but you know, that interferes with commerce too much. (also part of the reason for huge amounts of anti-Semitism from about 1100-now )