I came to America to escape people who talk like this. “Having a different relationship to property” is communist code for ownership being conditional and political. It is the same idea that destroyed entire societies, now rebranded with softer language and moral smugness. Property rights are not optional. They are the operating system of a free society. Every serious economist in history agrees on one point: incentives matter. Ayn Rand said it perfectly: “You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Housing is expensive because activists and politicians make building illegal, slow, and politically toxic. Fixing supply is hard. Attacking ownership is easy. That is why failed thinkers always choose the latter. I have more respect for flat earthers than communists. Flat earthers are harmless, and everyone agrees they are idiots. Communism keeps getting recycled as virtue despite its body count and total record of failure. Communists, democratic socialists, or whatever they like to call themselves nowadays are society’s most dangerous idiots, especially when they are elected into positions of power. I lived under collective property. It meant decay, shortages, corruption, and people pretending to work while the system pretended to function. I did not come to America to hear these ideas again, dressed up as justice. I came here because this country understood something rare: freedom requires ownership. I have seen how this ends. It never ends well.