“Must work, or it is the biggest scam ever. “
No, the biggest scam by far is fiat money combined with a tax on capital gains defined as increase in the number of dollars an asset like land undergoes when rampant inflation kicks in.
This is the grandest scheme of theft in all human history. Government gets to inflate the currency to pay its bills and later gets to take even more of your wealth by taxing an “increase” in the price of your home or farmland due solely to inflation that government alone caused.