This goes back a long way. Where the Kings owned all of their land, and the serfs, worked on their land. (and actually were property of the land.)

When they got to the new land (Americas) they divvied up the land mostly based on who claimed each piece first.

Like, America bought Alaska from Russia. Alaska, where there are acres that haven't seen a human.

We should not be able to "buy" land that we are not using and keep others out of it.