It may also protect the property of wealthy or risky owners against the possibility of future lawsuits or creditors, because the trust owns the property, not the individuals at risk.

We might return to the days of Czars and Serfs where the top 1% of the wealthy own ALL the land and the rest of us peons must rent from them.

The apartment owners are very wealthy people.

Some one is getting wealthy off of me buying those fries.

(Population density of 5,959 people per sq mile versus 501 respectively)Guess which one was rated as one of the top five most wealthy jurisdictions in the US and votes for the same party at the Gov?

But, is this post a product of today culture of “content creation”?

The owner is wealthy and doesn't want to deal with the hassle of land-lording OR selling in a traditional sense.

Using the Six Sigma management strategy also used at GE, he dramatically overhauled the company and replaced its entrepreneurial culture of innovative product design with one focused on relentless cost-cutting.[3] He changed the decentralized management structure, by eliminating and consolidating division executives.

It sounds like a cultural thing. 

Quite a bit of a culture shock from San Diego huh?