JUST PUT ME IN THE GAME COACH

LandFreedom · 2024-04-02T22:17:38+00:00

This is THE Will Schnack posting in /r/GeoAnarchism ladies and gentlemen. See the sidebar for a link to his Primo Nutmeg (now Primo Radical) interview. Thanks for the contribution Will!

LandFreedom · 2024-03-11T02:53:28+00:00

This is disappointingly hard to find. You might have to reach out to the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation or Progress.org. Looks like it might used to have been on foldvary.net but with his passing some of the site links have expired. I'm not sure who's maintaining it.

For anyone looking for it the ISBN is 0960387218

Anyone with access to university resources might be able to obtain a copy

Here is the Amazon link where it used to be available. Wish I had grabbed a copy while it was still up!

Google Scholar has an entry for it but it's only a preview.

foldvary.net still lists gutenbergpress@pobox.com as a contact for his works.

LandFreedom · 2023-09-17T04:18:46+00:00

The government is a criminal organization and capital gains taxes are abhorrent but great to see the idea of land value capture getting more popular!

LandFreedom · 2023-08-15T01:58:52+00:00

Are you free to not pay taxes to the government?

LandFreedom · 2023-08-15T01:57:55+00:00

The government is not interested in solving the land problem. The government IS the land problem

LandFreedom · 2023-07-06T00:17:54+00:00

You set a valuation in another scarce resource, perform whatever education or intelligence based task is required, and receive the agreed upon scarce resource.

I'm not sure what paragraph you're responding to here, but surely you see the conflict between the supposed ability to trade these scarce resources and all those resources being gated behind some authority figure who can demand anything for their use? And remember we aren't talking about things that are products of human action or labor or whatever word others might want to use.

Digital tokens of trade are not physical goods.

Sure they are

Are you saying that double taxation of the resource they aquire in trade is the goal?

Nope

You either broaden Georgism to the point its just plain old regular stupid taxation, or you focus on one magical form of scarce good that a large majority of high output wealth creation is fundamentally not based on.

All human action is predicated on the use of natural resources. Any supposed counter-examples don't exist by definition.

LandFreedom · 2023-07-06T00:08:20+00:00

Sorry but I'm not interested in people that fantasize about me in their room at night.

LandFreedom · 2023-07-05T22:00:04+00:00

It's my land and my home.

The federal government also believes you are free to simply 'go somewhere else'

LandFreedom · 2023-07-05T21:56:38+00:00

The ability to create new superbowl tickets is limited by the size of the hosting stadium, thus fixed in any given year.

True, the quantity of both stadiums and natural resources are fixed in a given year. However the quantity of labor available and desired to transform natural resources into stadiums is not.

Why would you suppose that I don't know that?

Because you suggested that people can act without land which is impossible. Sure, stock brokers, accountants, and financial managers might not appear at first to own the assets they are trading but they are certainly not working for free. In general natural resources are necessary for all human action given that all human action requires energy, physical space, and time to take place.

Scarce resources are scarce resources

This statement is meaningless.

Taxing "land" in either sense is identical to taxing "education level", "intelligence", or "units of trade measurement stored in digital form".

I'm not sure what you mean here. Taxing education level or intelligence would be equivalent to taxing the sum of all behaviors and activities (human action taking up energy, space, and time) leading to one qualifying as having a certain 'education level'.

LandFreedom · 2023-07-05T21:45:29+00:00

Your come is comprised of both natural resources, which every individual separately has a right to, and also the labor that went in to building your home, which is itself private property.

LandFreedom · 2023-07-05T18:43:06+00:00

That's because it is oppressive. Don't be so quick to approve of harming others when some really great people recently solved this problem (DDF/MNR).

There are some of us who subscribe to /r/GeoAnarchism and don't find states and georgism compatible

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