Interesting chart I saw today. Might help you expand your horizons on how you might think about how an economy should be regulated (or just give you a laugh that's fine too)
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500 sats \ 0 replies \ @DeltaClimbs 16 Oct 2023
Land-owners robbing people at gunpoint to fund their security is criminal. Funny how anti-Georgists will pretend to be capitalists, but don't actually want to pay for their own security.
You don't own land. You lease land from the Government. You don't actually own land because you are too poor to actually own it and defend it, even if you're a billionaire, just try not paying property tax.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 16 Oct 2023
Never occurred to me that Georgists and Feudalists are polar opposites :)
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107 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja OP 16 Oct 2023
I didn't even know what a Georgist was lmao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
I will add though, that I don't think they quite have the formula for success quite right. In my head I kinda have private ownership of the workers (a worker coop) meaning lobbying will be more effective for good things while still opposing like government making decisions good for government employees but bad for everyone else kind of problem (as well as other issues)
There's something to it though.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 16 Oct 2023
Agree, but it's a fun way to point out some differences in these views.
Personally, I think it's weird that people divide things in all these convoluted ways. There's also no reason to think of particular types of owners or entrepreneurs as good or bad.
Respecting private property rights is basically all societies need to do to function successfully. Free people can work out all this other stuff.
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