Economics.
Our economic system utlizes the FICA system, not a gold standard.
Which is why Gaddafi was assassinated.
The price of everything goes up, which is why real estate is your best bet for investment as it follows inflation. Yet, location, location, location is a common term with real estate agents.
Look at California. There were huge neighborhoods built with promises of business to follow (they should have waited for the business to show first) people moved and the houses they sold for pennies on the dollar what they are worth today.
It was an economic wool to trick people to leave voluntarily in order to acquire the properties, raise property values and keep the unwanted out.
It is a fuked up world we live in.