I dont see how it matters. Its not like we have run out of room. Just have 4x the number of small neighbourhood grocery stores

We're running out of something though, or some combination of things. Otherwise you wouldn't have such accelerating inequality and popular unrest.

Ya, we’re running out of wealth mobility. No one can afford houses because corporations vacuum up all the money.

Vs pre-ww2 where all the peasents could easily afford real estate?

The population of the US has nearly tripled since then and the GDP has grown almost 2000%; more than 1500% if looking at real GDP [1]. There should be far more wealth equality now but there isn’t.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/1031678/gdp-and-real-gdp...

The 1920s was very famous for wealth inequality, so im not sure that's true.

With a quick google i found this graph https://www.cbpp.org/wealth-concentration-has-been-rising-to... which suggests that the present is much more unequal than the 1970s, but still hasn't risen to the level of inequality from the pre WW2 era.

The solution to that, in hindsight, was probably not building the majority of new housing in sprawling, low-density suburbs that require a car to get most places people want to go though…

Which is why industrialized countries with higher population density move back even faster to pre-WWII urban planning (EU), or sometimes never left it (Japan).