> You seem to think its OK for a small percentage of people to have everything as long as you have the right to roam around.
Agriculture in the United Kingdom uses 69% of the country's land area. 476,000 people work on those farms. That farms take up a disproportionate amount of land compared to urban areas doesn't tell us anything about income inequality. Most people in England want to live in cities, so even the wealthiest citizens might own little to no land (how much land does a wealthy penthouse owner own if all they own is that penthouse).
To be clear, I'm not saying that income inequality doesn't exist. We just don't see examples of it by looking at farmland.
The wealthy penthouse owner is actually an interesting case in point.
Traditionally England only had Leasehold ownership of 3D space, you couldn't own it in perpetuity. Since the penthouse is presumably above many other properties belonging to other people its owner could only own a "long lease" (e.g. 100 or 250 years) on the penthouse, with the permanent freehold rights separate, often owned by brass plate companies with the ground rent and other fees paid to them disappearing into opaque foreign corporations.
Some years ago, recognising that this is crap, the British government introduced Commonhold, a way to own 3D space that acknowledges that the property owners who share the same physical building need to work together but rejects the approach that the Freehold should be a profit centre for rent-seeking third party investors.
So in principle today a penthouse could be owned Commonhold, which means it comes with membership of a "Commonhold Association" an entity that exists only so that the Commonhold owners can all be members, and to own the Freehold that they're all dependent on instead of it being possible for somebody else to own that.
In practice people didn't say "I demand Commonhold" and accept a price premium for this improved ownership. So if you developed a piece of land after the reform you had the choice, sell a property Commonhold for £X or sell the same property as Leasehold with say a £1000pa escalator ground rent going to Property Holding Corp 3472 based in the British Virgin Islands, for £X. It was a no brainer, and there are very few Commonhold properties today and plenty of these mysterious property holding corporations earning fat stacks.
Sure, its farms. Tell me another one. If yo see who owns all the wealth, it would be about an equal percentage of the population. Stop deflecting from the gross income inequality that exists in UK and across the world. Its a fight that you can't win because the numbers don't support you. (pfss. "It's farms").
69% of all the land in the UK is farm land. Most farms are owned by individual farmers. Those farmers make up roughly 1% of the total population. The numbers absolutely support this (feel free to research it yourself if you don't want to take my comment as gospel).
There are legitimate signs of income inequality. This just happens to not be one of them. No one defines income equality as everyone in the country owning roughly the same acres of land. The vast majority of people live in urban areas, so we wouldn't expect that those city-dwellers all owned roughly the same percent of farmland.
Agriculture in the United Kingdom uses 69% of the country's land area. 476,000 people work on those farms. That farms take up a disproportionate amount of land compared to urban areas doesn't tell us anything about income inequality. Most people in England want to live in cities, so even the wealthiest citizens might own little to no land (how much land does a wealthy penthouse owner own if all they own is that penthouse).
To be clear, I'm not saying that income inequality doesn't exist. We just don't see examples of it by looking at farmland.