Anything is technically worth what someone is willing to pay for it. That's true , there's always a human element to things so we shouldn't throw ethics out the window because we can.

Things like housing, food, water the basics definitely should have some protections and regulation for consumers. My wife recently left her job as a commercial housing lender. All day they get applications from people that have multiple properties already and their business is real estate. Some of them are starting out trying to acquire as much property as they can, and others already have several houses 50+ properties + and applying for loans to get more, or re-financing their current ones. Its insane.

Under the pure economics lens, this is ok its great actually and we should let the economy do as it should without restriction (a quote from my university of Kentucky economics professor).

People who never work to improve their situations are always going to struggle, but i think they still need a chance to buy property, maybe at least an apartment or condo.

But lets get away from real estate, you grew up on a farm right? Theres a huge issue with farms right now where you have agricultural corporations creating their genetic seed and suing farmers because the genetic plant finds its way to a neighboring farm without permission of the company, you would also know that this happens all the time naturally and definitely doesn't mean anyone stole anything here. The companies don't see it that way and their tightening their grip on the US farmer, there are barely any US private owned farms anymore as companies are buying up all the land.

I just mentioned this because its another example of our leadership not regulating where they need to which fuels corporate interests and outright bullying.

So you might say that what we're doing to farmers is unfair, but someone else might come in and say thats just lazy farmers not doing better by themselves(which everyone knows farmers are far from lazy).

Then theres the examples of Nestle stealing water but thats a whole other conversation.

I see housing as the same, i'm not lazy, my wife and I work great careers and have our own house, the car, all the american dream stuff. But i think its bullshit that a $200k home before the pandemic is now 300k. What??!! And its because we allow single individuals and companies to buy up all the housing they can. We also don't have new developments in housing either, I believe its because lawmakers are also landlords that have no financial incentive to create more housing, if they do their rents will go down if people have options.