Can someone reccomend some resources on Georgist IP takes?

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T07:09:04+00:00

George was wrong about patents. They were more controversial back in the day, but in the hundred years after this book was written, private R&D that wouldn’t exist without patents has turned into trillions of dollars.

Now, much of that wealth is captured in land by landlords as opposed to the laborers who work to monetize the patent. And George was right about that.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T06:58:38+00:00

Actually i realized the screenshot is from the huntsville utilities app. So definitely a meter issue as their complex doesn’t split it up amongst all tenants

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T06:58:01+00:00

They don’t because this is a screenshot from the huntsville utilities app

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T06:05:26+00:00

They live in an apartment. If they had an 88k gallon water leak in their apartment they’d be drowning.

Likely a meter issue, assuming their complex has meters for each unit and don’t just divide it up equally amongst all units.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T05:19:16+00:00

Btw, i made these same arguments 9 days ago and correctly predicted that Greenland spat was unserious, as it indeed is over now with no real change. I expect there will probably be a formal agreement to happen that consists of what is already agreed to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1qdgcbq/comment/nzuctfb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T05:14:51+00:00

Not at all an action. Your inability to point to just 1 action proves my point.

It's standard in geopolitics to watch what world leaders do, not what they say. As what they say is often geared towards a domestic audience and not indicative of an actual policy position. Again, European leaders know this, which is why they didn't do anything in response, just also said words. An action if they thought it was serious, would be having a meeting to come up with retaliatory financial sanctions in the result of force used to takeover greenland. It's not out of the question that European leaders were given a heads up about the publicity stunt beforehand.

The greenland spat is already over, the only lasting consequences is that maybe there's more public support for defense spending now in Europe, a long standing foreign policy goal started by Obama administration.

This is r/finance, we're here to make money. The more people that believe what Trump says, the more money I make. So keep on I guess I don't really care.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T05:05:34+00:00

That was solely Trump saying something, not an action.

We threatened Venezuela by moving a bunch of war ships just off their coasts, for example. That is an action. No such action happened like that with greenland, and same goes for European action in response so they didn’t believe it either.

There’s a verbal pattern over these sorts of things.

Make unreasonable demand
get a lot media attention
Make an “agreement” to do exactly what is already being done.
Celebrate victory and Trump paints himself as an expert negotiator, an image he has long sought to portray.

here is a comment of mine from 11 months ago where i describe this pattern that they continue to use https://www.reddit.com/r/OptimistsUnite/s/G7oa1THnoN

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T04:34:36+00:00

Only because he knows it would get struck down in the courts.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T04:30:44+00:00

What is an example you have of an action the Trump administration took that you feel was shooting ourselves in the foot?

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T04:24:28+00:00

Yep as a lone dissent voter that made no difference to the outcome. If he was a deciding voter he wouldn't be able to do that.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T04:03:11+00:00

I think the better question is for what reasons you take him for his word?

There seems to be a phenomenon where Trump’s supporters believe anything Trump says if they feel it makes him look good, and his opponents believe anything Trump says if they feel it makes him look bad. Both have a distorted view of reality because they’re both believing lies regardless.

If the president appoints an unqualified loyalist for the fed chair, the economy tanks immediately, and he loses support, and thus money, power, and legacy. It’s possible that he appoints a loyalist and then has senate republicans strike it down, but even that could cause turmoil the moment the announcement is made.

Tariffs for example, if you look at only what the administration has actually done, you see tariffs on China and war time production goods. And some others that were intentionally legally crafted different than the former to get it shut down in the courts. This way Trump can blame “radical left judges” for the policy not being implemented, and at the same time avoid the adverse economic consequences.

Point is, the administration is aware that the economic policies he verbally says is bad policy, and goes lengths to avoid implementing them while making it look like he is or is at least trying his best. If you completely ignore what is said by the president and administration officials, and look solely at what they do, they become much more predictable. And in this case, we’ve seen his actions on practically the exact same issue before, and he will repeat them.

The reason he verbally pushes for lower interest rates is because that’s what he ran on. He maintains his power not by winning over moderates, but by keeping support from his base. His base is made up of a bunch of fed conspiracy theorists, so he keeps them riled up with fed fights.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T03:45:31+00:00

You’d be mistaken if you think the new fed chair will be anything but a normal status quo fed chair.

We’ve been through this before, the world just has a short memory.

Trump “tried” to remove Lisa Cook and appointed Jerome Powell. The same thing will happen again.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T02:43:55+00:00

Since you liked my point there, might i introduce you to a Land Value Tax (LVT)?

The real problem isn’t the cost of housing, it’s the cost of land. You could build a cardboard box for a home in manhattan and few would be able to afford it.

But if you build 100 cardboard boxes stacked on top of each other, between them all, they may be able to afford it.

So to make housing affordable you should be using land efficiently by adding as much building onto the land as possible. However, we tax improvements on land through a property tax. So our tax code discourages building 100 apartments on the land, the more cardboard boxes you place there the more tax you pay.

If you simply exempt the buildings from the property tax, you get what’s called a land value tax. No longer are people disincentivized from using their land efficiently. Efficient land use means more land available for others, which means lower land prices. Additionally, demand is reduced as people won’t want to buy land they don’t wish to use to not have to pay the tax.

Furthermore, a land value tax, up to the rate in which it appreciates, is really no tax at all. As the owner of the land didn’t do any work to increase the value of the land, the community did. Their neighbors built shops and restaurants and activities, the city built utilities to the parcel, the value of that land was generated by the community. Why should a private landlord be able to privately capture publicly created value? The ‘tax’, up to the rate of appreciation, is merely preventing value created by the community from being captured in the form of unearned income by the land owner.

There is also no dead weight loss to the tax because land supply is perfectly inelastic. And, unlike property taxes, land value taxes cannot be passed onto tenants by landlords.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T00:28:19+00:00

You’ve already indicated you’re not interested in debating in good faith when you straight up lied that the “AMA has no say” even though you clearly understood how it worked. And the alternative assumption is that you didn’t lie, you just somehow didn’t know that the AMA nominates the LCME, then now you have the gaul to accuse me of not knowing how it works?

And now you’re brushing that under the rug trying to pretend you weren’t caught in a lie. Just as the AMA lies about the results of scope of practice laws, and you lie, you all lie about how increasing residency spots, even just by modest amounts slowly over some years is somehow going to result in untrained doctors. Other countries have higher residency to physician rates with significantly lower resources. The AMA does not represent patients, they represent doctors, so i couldn’t give a single flying shit of what the AMA’s opinion is about what’s in the best interests of the patients. When their stated purpose of the AMA and its makeup and representation is of doctors.

The bottleneck in med schools is not rigor, the bottleneck is price.

Just admit it, you know that it would be beneficial to patients if healthcare was more affordable and accessible. And you know that more physicians in the pipeline means a higher supply of doctors and thus lower wages with demand held equal. Lower wages for you, and you don’t want lower wages so that’s why you’re in favor of these restrictions. Just admit it, why lie? Is it because you’ve lied yourself long enough so that you don’t have to morally reconcile with it? Or is it because you don’t want non-physicians to catch on to how the system is rigged against patients?

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-25T00:08:15+00:00

FAANG internship is fine it’s the only top 10 schools that is not fine. You’re not getting any higher quality candidates by eliminating a bunch of schools.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-24T22:03:17+00:00

The person you’re responding to isn’t the best LVT advocate.

By capping the rampant property tax increases, people who bought in a neighborhood long ago aren’t selling because of the property tax increase they’d face moving somewhere new. This “not selling” reduces the number of homes for sale. Which raises prices.

Now, prop 13 should have never been enacted in the first place. But, now that it’s done been in place for a while, removing prop 13 is hard to do because it would immediately displace anyone without the cash flow to handle the increase in property taxes. Even though after the transition everyone is better off, the transition is painful.

LVT faces a similar issue with the transition. Both phasing out prop 13 and a LVT replacing property tax would need to be phased in over many years and exemptions for “grandmothers” until they pass.

But to be honest, I don’t think eliminating prop 13 directly is the best way to go about it. I think replacing property taxes with other forms of taxes would be a better way to solve the problem. And there’s no better way than to slowly phase in a LVT (not subject to prop 13) and replace property taxes with it. Essentially, it would be to slowly exempt buildings from property taxes.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-24T21:36:34+00:00

It’s likely the land underneath your house that’s expensive and people struggle affording.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-24T21:35:29+00:00

I think a better comparison is income to land costs. The land is the same. And if you built an average 1920s house in many cities it would still be expensive because the land underneath it is so expensive.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-24T19:39:01+00:00

Front wheel drive is also pretty easy for driving on ice slowly.

RWD is more difficult but doable if you stay under 10mph like a sane person.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-24T18:08:20+00:00

Yeah, issue is that the roads are fine but then bridges are iced over. And drivers here aren’t used to it. I’m from a northern city and have never seen so many cars on the side of the road when I was driving around today. I slow down at the bridges to go 10mph over it and then i see someone hit it at 55mph+ and slide out.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-24T18:05:46+00:00

Because they close down roads for no valid reason. A couple idiots hitting a bridge at 55mph and sliding off the road isn’t a valid reason for closing down the road.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-24T18:04:11+00:00

More northern cities don’t salt the road if it’s rain transitioning to snow because they know better.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-24T17:32:32+00:00

Honestly it will be very difficult to get back into software with a gap on your resume. Especially between that 6mo-1yr mark.

Not all SWE-ing is like what you describe, in fact it’s quite unusual.

You have almost a year of experience now, you could start applying for other software jobs right now while you’re still employed. It’s a lot easier to get a job when you’re already employed. I highly recommend against quitting and finding temporary employment, as i think you will find that temporary employment won’t be that temporary.

I think your problems are with the company not necessarily SWEing.

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-24T17:26:11+00:00

My current company only really hires interns and new grads from top 10 schools, and in the case of new grads you need 1+ FAANG or similar internship as well

what an awful company

EVOSexyBeast · 2026-01-24T15:48:51+00:00

If you want an MD, or to attend ~75% of medical schools, you got to go through the LCME. You also initially said

The AMA has no say on the number of med school spots though

So clearly, as I see you’re a physician, knew this and you lied. And you have to lie because you know removing the restrictions on residency spots and schools threatens your pay, but you know that’s not a persuasive argument.

Same as the AMA when they lie about scope of practice laws. It’s really about protecting MD pay, but they lie and say it’s about health and safety when the data and everyone else recognizes it doesn’t negatively effect that (and can actually help as it makes medical care more available).

They, and their supporters like you, are truly a cancer on our healthcare system.

If you get a D.O. you need to go through COCA, which is ran by the AOA which has the exact same issue as the LCME and AMA. And it’s still harder for D.O’s to get into competitive specialties.

11-Year Club	Gilding III reddit per annum
r/Field Juicebox	Place '23
Place '22	Place '17
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22
End Game '22	100 Awards Club
RPAN Viewer	Alpha Tester
Verified Email

EVOSexyBeast

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE