Why, though, are some landowners so good at milking rent from their holdings? We have noted a geographical trend. With the odd exception, your south of England landlord is hugely successful at squeezing big money out of his land, but as we move northwards we see increasingly marked fall‑off in performance, right through to the Highland lairds whose rent productivity per acre is, frankly, scandalously low. Can it be that the riches of the landowner depend on the presence and activity of other people? No personal effort is required: just look at Nature's bounty and wait on the turn of events. There is nothing a landowner, as mere title holder of land, can do, anyway! Rural landowners everywhere ought really to be considering rolling up their land and relocating to the centres of the big cities, but that is the one snag of possessing a monopoly location: it just can not be moved. It's a tough life, but it does beat working for a living!
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