We value tons of things produced by rocks we run electricity through, why is this any different than a car that was produced using a robot welder or a house constructed with a crane?

You think Humans aren’t pumping out 100% derivative works all the time?

Like every shitty romance novel published. There’s only so many ways a man can woo a woman, they just change the location, randomize the set of actions from a list of things men can do to turn women on, throw in something to harm the relationship, and then come up with a set of names.

Looking at stuff from out of country can help.

CBC in Canada and the BBC in the UK both cover significant US news and aren’t going to be as overtly biased as for-profit US news sources.

They couldn’t. The only way this happens is if ownership rates drop well below half the population and renters vote in a political party that can wrest control back from land owners.

Yea, the technique of the government simply owning all the land and doing all the development does work. It just can’t really be applied to any western country without a massive revolt when they confiscate all the land from private owners. The government could never afford to pay for all of it, so it would have to be seized without payment.