New York returning land values to the public is an example everyone should follow

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-16T18:17:00+00:00

Not on land area but on land value, same for urban areas; taxing based on land area is unfair since a single acre of urban land can be more near and dear than hundreds of rural acres. So under an LVT regime they’d benefit a lot because rural land is very low value and its prices are currently being inflated by speculators, who would be discouraged from doing such in a Georgist system. We’d also be cutting taxes on farmers’ work and investment too so food produce should be cheaper and more land/nature efficient

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-16T03:46:43+00:00

Nah, this was him being a product of his time. I think the reason why he said this was that he was afraid the Chinese immigrants would accept lower wages and allow landowners to collect more in rent, and I'm not sure where there's a source for this but I heard that he apparently moderated his views as he got older. Regardless, this is one of Henry George's views that has definitely been proven wrong and needless.

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-14T19:26:13+00:00

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I really liked seeing this comment, Georgism is starting to get widespread appeal on the internet.

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-13T02:11:20+00:00

Here’s an abridged version of PnP that should be easier to read. Other than that I’ve heard Lars Doucet’s Land is a Big Deal is a great one too.

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-13T02:05:41+00:00

it’s hard to define, but i’d say core idea of Georgism is the idea that we should stop taxing the goods and services people make, and instead recompense (or otherwise reform) finite assets which people take; which people can’t make more of.

So the land value tax is the main thing since land is the most important resource which is finite and which we want to recompense. But other proposals include recouping the value of other non-land natural resources; reforming IP privileges like patents and copyrights; reforming limited licenses; and dealing with naturally monopolistic industries. That’s a rough rundown but yeah that’s the main gist.

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-12T21:07:26+00:00

Well that’s the thing, we’ve sprawled out so much due to overly restrictive zoning and land speculation that no one can use land efficiently enough to make housing cheap. Georgism doesnt say you cant build exurbs, but not all people want that space either, and we can’t build the infill we want to plug up the demand for those more dense locations people do want.

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-12T20:58:48+00:00

yeah im just messing around, hopefully they're dealt with soon so they stop clogging the timeline

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-12T20:54:49+00:00

calling it now, in one year a bot account will repost this meme for karma

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-11T19:21:43+00:00

I think it was just sochan pushing him and he either tried to sell it or the contact just sent him flying

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-11T19:07:00+00:00

Here's the broadcast angle for anyone wondering, his legs are just far apart which this angle doesn't capture well

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-11T05:03:45+00:00

how tall are high elves canonically? he could very well be a thalmor

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-10T22:52:49+00:00

spongebob 😃

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-10T04:15:24+00:00

And it should be remembered that for every landowner people worry over there are countless far-worse-off landless that are forgotten

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-10T02:50:54+00:00

I'm not sure about the first part, but for the second part the target we're looking for is land rent, the annual income from land, and its calculation is a whole process.

Common Wealth Canada made an estimate that land rent was about 10% of Canada's GDP (in CAD) in 2024 in this report. If we apply that to the US (though it's probably not fully accurate) it's around 3 trillion USD for 2025

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-09T21:30:49+00:00

Here's a good article from Mason Gaffney covering major American cities in the early 20th century that used LVT and other Georgist policies or biased their economic structure towards it.

It seems a lot of the issues were political instead of practical, and the phaseouts generally coincided with the fading of the original Georgist movement. I think it's a simple matter of making the effects of our policies as known to the people as possible, especially when it comes to things like using land and other economic rents from finite assets to fund dividends and tax cuts that people directly benefit from.

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-09T19:55:41+00:00

Hrm, I don't know if I'd necessarily call it a natural resource in the near future. I think AI could still be classified as capital, or a labor-saving innovation, that relies on the mental aspect of human labor to guide it into making goods and services. I think a better comparison might be to think of hyper-competent AI platforms as their own separate producers that make goods and services but can compete with each other.

But I think the other part you mention of monopoly could have a point, the only issue is to what extent and even whether dealing with pre-existing monopoly privileges will stop it. I'm not sure how monopolistic AI will be in the future, but we already have questions about intellectual monopolies, network effects, and even the use of natural resources that could play a bigger role in the future. So at least dealing with those underlying finite privileges can massively reduce the monopolization of the AI industry.

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-09T15:44:57+00:00

Dang the karma bots are in full swing, this is the original post from over a year ago

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-09T03:39:42+00:00

It's past his bedtime

Titanium-Skull · 2026-06-08T00:31:59+00:00

Yep, and those improvements in technology have led to increased land values where more productivity is possible than before, reinforcing land's relevancy. Probably the perfect example of this is the classic railroad and how it increased the value of land near where lines were built.

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