And then what? All other houses are doubled. Does he cash out his &quot;money for nothing&quot; and live elsewhere or realise that the gap between his 2 bed and a 3 bed is now also twice as large.<p>Property speculation is utterly engraved into Western society now and it&#x27;s killing it.<p>EDIT: it&#x27;s interesting how people upvote this as they can see it&#x27;s a truism, but downvote my post attacking land speculators.<p>NEWSFLASH: buying land and sitting on it to exploit scarcity creates no wealth. Therefore if you buy lower and sell higher that money comes from wealth created elsewhere, making you a leech. If you buy somewhere to live in, fine, but more than one place to speculate: you are leeching off of the labour of others.<p>EDIT: don&#x27;t have time to reply now as i&#x27;ve got a prod issue to debug. Read up on Henry George or don&#x27;t.<p>If you think making money from doing nothing then using the same money to consume goods is fine, well to hell with you.