That's all well and good until someone decides to apply that reasoning to something else, like, say....the Internet.
You really think all that wireless spectrum is finding it's best use sharing cat videos? High-bandwidth video emojis?
They aren't making any more RF spectrum either.
One man's "common sense solution" is another man's "free market distortion".
And there is PLENTY of land to go around....so.....bad example. You could give nearly every single person on the planet plenty of room to live in Texas. That's without going vertical into multi-story buildings.
Ultimately the best use of people's labor is whatever they want to do with it. If that's buying houses, great. Beanie babies, faberge eggs, gold ingots, whatever.
Sure you can "nearly every single person on the planet plenty of room to live in Texas" but they would be devoid of infrastructure and it would be incredibly expensive to service people's homes if they're spread out across the states. It's a cop out to say 'there is plenty of land' when it requires a hell of a lot of work to bring it modern services. If you think your simplistic land argument is a good one you should revisit other beliefs as well.
It's treated like real-estate with RF "zoning rules".
But very wide swaths of the RF spectrum are essentially a free -for-all. You could argue that the most valuable parts (UHF) are used for stuff that could only be described as "non-essential" e.g. cat videos.
That's all well and good until someone decides to apply that reasoning to something else, like, say....the Internet.
You really think all that wireless spectrum is finding it's best use sharing cat videos? High-bandwidth video emojis?
They aren't making any more RF spectrum either.
One man's "common sense solution" is another man's "free market distortion".
And there is PLENTY of land to go around....so.....bad example. You could give nearly every single person on the planet plenty of room to live in Texas. That's without going vertical into multi-story buildings.
Ultimately the best use of people's labor is whatever they want to do with it. If that's buying houses, great. Beanie babies, faberge eggs, gold ingots, whatever.
Do you really need all that crap you own?