Land as an Investment

From the beginning of time, since Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden, land has been an investment for all humans. During the agrarian age, there were two classes of people, the royal class which owns the land and the peasant class which farms the land. Anyone that owns the most land has the most wealth which makes the royal class the richer set of people. The aim of every peasant was to own the land on which they farm which would help them to create more wealth. Taxes were collected from farmers who use the land of the royal class and those taxes were paid to the King or the Queen (monarchy). This system of investing in land has existed in the past and will continue to exist in the future. Land increases in value overtime (appreciates) and can be used as a source of income (farming).

Fast forward into the information age and we can see where land is still seen as an investment. Commercial real estate is built on top of land which rents office spaces to businesses such as medical laboratories. Office spaces are rented to business owners who are similar to the farmers who pay taxes to the royal family for using their land in the agrarian age. Farmland is still used by farmers in the information age since food is one of the basic survival needs of all humans and will forever be a product that consumers need. Big landowners tend to lease/rent land to farmers who do not own any land in order for the farmers to operate their farming business. This is a similar system to how office space from commercial real estate is rented to businesses such as medical laboratories.