From: Randall Parker 

Mark,

But consider the side-effects: People stop doing maintenance. People stop
do additions. No new buildings unless you happen to have inherited it and
have a clear claim to it stretching back generations.

Its a recipe for greatly slowed economic development no matter how you cut it.

In , the sagacious mark{at}hessey.com Mark Hessey
perspicated:
> That's covered Randall, supposedly the value of the land _decreases_ each
> year until it's worth nothing in year 50, so you're really not giving
> anything up  But if year 45 comes along and you're just plain
fed up with
> paying $20/hour to get the harvest in, you can sell it to someone else for
> 5/50ths of your original buy price and walk away from it early.
>

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