🤔 georgism lightning talk

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island
- Alice and Bob capsize on the sea, swim towards an island
- Bob gets there first: this is my land, what will you give me to stay here?
river
- a river that people use to travel
- a man puts a chain across, charges to get past
- profits off of taking something that's there and limiting access
- "rent"
parking lot
- what is a better investment? a parking lot or a second home
refrigerator
- do you celebrate when refrigerator prices go up?
- no, but why do you celebrate when house prices go up?
home
- buy a home, live in 30 years, don't maintain it much, still sell for a great profit (b/c of land value)
- why do you profit? what did you do to increase it's value?
  - all your land value increase is due to activity of the community, government investment, etc.
- do we want to structure our society this way?
city
- despite all the immense progress... and great wealth creation... why is there still poverty? (note: 1879)
- treats land as a seperate category (capital, labour)
  - "land" defined as anything with fixed supply
- theory: all progress / value-creation in a region gets absorbed by land prices
- what was meant as a caution, was used a playbook by capitalists
- suggests land should be taxed highly
  - ex. 100% capital gains tax on land

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