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If you take the monetary incentive of profit away, what other motivator exists for people to take huge financial risks and expend vast amounts of money to purchase land and construct houses and other living structures?

I guess you do have the right to wander into the forest and build yourself a fortress out of pine cones and moss, but if you want to live in a modern house with modern amenities, there's going to be a profit incentive behind it. It's basic economics.



> I guess you do have the right to wander into the forest and build yourself a fortress out of pine cones and moss..

Is there anywhere where this would be legal? Certainly not in Germany.




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