• R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Progress and Poverty, and you still can’t just have everything for free even in a better system.

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      11 months ago

      I’ll have to add that to my list, always looking to learn more.

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        11 months ago

        It’s a good read, makes you realize how swindled we got, and what we might have had if they’d adopted these ideas in the late 1800’s.

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      11 months ago

      Wouldn’t the LVT+UBI that Henry George proposes effectively cancel rent and then some? We’d be getting paid 100% of the surplus from land use, not just a safety net.