But it's extractive, i.e. the housing costs what you can pay if you sacrifice. Those who got housing first need to get paid by latecomers. If the cost of building magically went to 0, the soft costs would inflate.
replySure. The extractiveness of housing costs can exist alongside the fact that constructing a building on land creates value.
replyAlways the same straw man argument. Nobody here is arguing that wealth can't be created.
replyDid you not read the comment chain above? That's precisely the point that was being discussed, then misunderstood.
replyI read the comment chain above. I just went back and read it again. I question whether you've done the same.
replyI can't understand the writing for you. But I can present it.
replyTheTayTay said "wealth can be created". Avicebron asked for an example of wealth creation. cm2012 provided one, housing. saghm misunderstood the intent of the example. I pointed out the error, and then you came in and have apparently repeatedly failed to understand again multiple comments, both the people who literally are saying that some quantity of wealth cannot be created, and myself.
If you didn't get that after a reread, all I can suggest is that you seek out a literacy class at a local community college. It will improve your life, because this certainly won't be the first or only time you misunderstand written words.