Sometimes I think about what it were like if land rights were structured as limited-term exclusive-use licenses. The licences are offered in recognition of the fact that it takes time and money to develop the land, so the licensee, by taking on this risk, should be allowed to try to earn back that value and then some. But after a certain point exclusive use seems to be an excessive reward, so the term should be limited somehow -- I haven't been able to think up a good way this part should work. In many cases, there's a natural limit to land ownership (we only live so long), but corporate land ownership is able to extend normally limited licenses into perpetuity...