The importance of the “land question” in our daily life is easily understood once you realize that in the economy, everything is interconnected. Moreover, any economy is a network of enterprise chains, all linked together in producing the goods we ultimately consume. All these enterprises, as a rule, don’t know about each other—they simply buy from each other the goods necessary for their production—but they are nonetheless links of a single chain, at the end of which stands the good that we consume. Usually an enterprise simultaneously participates in many such chains: in some, its product is final; in others, intermediate. And, by the way, the share of these “invisible” products in the total output of society can be very high.
All this complex system can be easily illustrated, say, by the classic example of a pencil—just consider how much must be done in order to make an ordinary pencil.
In these chains, goods are sequentially transferred from one stage to another. One enterprise extracts ore, another buys the ore and smelts steel, a third buys the steel and manufactures nails, and so on. The production of even the most seemingly simple good includes hundreds, or even thousands, of stages. And “land” is present at every stage of every production chain, either in the form of the value of a land plot or in the form of rent.
Land, together with capital, labor, and entrepreneurship, is a “primary factor of production,” which for our topic means that it affects production at any stage of the process. You may have no direct involvement in land transactions, but it will always have the most direct bearing on your daily life. It stands to reason that if your country is in disarray with land, capital, labor, and entrepreneurship, then you cannot expect anything good from your economy. In our country there is extreme disorder, or rather chaos, in all four areas, so there is nothing surprising here.
And since the “land market” in reality, and not in the heads of officials inventing “targeted use,” encompasses all land plots, and not only the “agricultural” ones, then bringing order to this market means a radical improvement of the entire economy.