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Artificial scarcity, the proposal is for the elimination of the ability of owning classes to restrict supply of a given good through various means.

That said, >100 years in the future it could be possible to make more land with rotating habitats in space, which would functionally eliminate land scarcity.

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I've watched enough sci-fi set in space to know that there's always something for the ruling powers to find scarce enough to start wars over..

Also something always goes wrong.

I would think I creating islands would be the first stop for "more land in good places" considering it's already possible.

It's much more economically viable, but it comes with a lot of ecological and environmental risk that we care about a lot more now (which is right and good). Same with preserving Antarctica, the other one people always bring up. The fact is we care hugely about the environment in the modern day, people who don't care about the environment are a loud minority, so in terms of making new habitable land on a large scale space is the most realistic even though it's more difficult in an economic and engineering sense.

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