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I live in the countryside. When I moved here in 1989 there were 13 houses. There are now 29. The farmer who owned the land sold it as individual plots for development. He benefited financially from the sales. Why should anyone else benefit from his enterprise?
Spoken like a true Thatcherite! Not so much Moulin Yarns as Moolah Yarns

Developments like these don't reaally strike me as genuine enterprise. It's not as if the farmer 'built' the land, is it? What he has done is monetized a land asset. Depending on whether he inherited it or bought it at land value for farming, he may have made a massive return solely from market speculation.