<i>You can&#x27;t be serious - there isn&#x27;t any unowned land out there.</i><p>You can buy land for less than $2,000 per acre in just about every inland state in the US. A cursory glance at Zillow shows that even Rhode Island has sub-$100k&#x2F;acre available[1].<p><i>But that involves being miles away from anywhere and if you&#x27;re off the grid it seriously hampers your earning potential.</i><p>I&#x27;ll concede that we&#x27;re not there yet, but technology makes off-the-grid living and working more feasible all the time.<p><i>Microchip fabs?</i><p>You mean like Intel? A company with 1800 owners?[2]<p>But without getting to boiled down in the minutia, my problem with Picketty is that there&#x27;s no reason that the &quot;r&quot; in &quot;r &gt; g&quot; couldn&#x27;t be distributed using crowd-funding and decentralized currencies (and whatever <i>their</i> successors might be) by the natural flow of capital, rather than relying on the coercive methods Picketty suggests.<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zillow.com&#x2F;homes&#x2F;for_sale&#x2F;RI&#x2F;land_type&#x2F;50_rid&#x2F;2-_beds&#x2F;0-540484_price&#x2F;0-2000_mp&#x2F;priced_sort&#x2F;42.172564,-69.893646,41.026535,-72.557831_rect&#x2F;8_zm&#x2F;0_mmm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zillow.com&#x2F;homes&#x2F;for_sale&#x2F;RI&#x2F;land_type&#x2F;50_rid&#x2F;2-_...</a>
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