| Land is the only heavily traded item that isn't created by users, so I can see why they would consider it more an investment than a regular business thing.
There must be something different, as far as measuring the economy, between someone buying land for L$100,000 and making L$20,000, and someone doing L$20,000 worth of business from investing time instead of money. The land dealing would look like L$220,000 if you included it, but the gain to the resident from their efforts is only L$20,000.
If they included land sales in the PMLF, you'd get people complaining that someone fire-saling their land for L$500,000 when they'd originally paid L$750,000 for it was being counted as someone making a profit. |