Just as slaves were widely held, and for similar reasons. Like slave owners in the antebellum South, though, land owners are now to some extent financially dependent on the continuation of the unjust system to which they have adapted their financial behavior. It's actually not necessary to retain the land in public ownership and allocate it through a political mechanism. Zero tolerance is anti-scientific nonsense. You can make money at it by using the land more productively than others think they can use it, of course.
Pets are a good example.
November 7, 1990.