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Real estate has been an investment vehicle used for capital preservation for millennia.


Not quite. Owning land / land rights for productive uses has been the pre-eminent form of capital ownership in history up to the modern age. But this is building or buying solely as a vehicle for speculation, i.e. with only market value in mind. That is a capitalist "innovation".




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