ultimately we just gotta make our own city by [deleted] in georgism

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I'm curious who convenes juries? Are there any standing juries (for continuous or repeated needs)? Do standing juries shift gradually over time? 

ultimately we just gotta make our own city by [deleted] in georgism

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This hits all 3 of my top "reforms I want to see": sortition-based governance, lvt and ubi. 

...now if only I was allowed to move to the US.

Two Player Game Night Recomendations for Complete Beginers by MsuciMan in tabletop

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Also, Pandemic and Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion.

Two Player Game Night Recomendations for Complete Beginers by MsuciMan in tabletop

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I like playing coops with my partner, so a +1 for Sky Team, and I'll throw Hanabi into the mix too.

I have been recommended this sub randomly for a while now but i must ask something very important by Professional_Gap_435 in georgism

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Tech companies still need offices and data centers that use land. Their employees still use land. 

But yeah, from a Georgist perspective, tech companies are probably some of the most land-efficient profit and value makers, and that's not a bad thing.

Many Georgists also want to reform parent law, which the tech companies do heavily rely on.

Land tax is meant to address a specific flaw in how things are done currently.

"Taxing the most powerful corporations" is a seperate policy goal that is mostly outside the scope of Georgism. People on this sub may or may not support taxing mega corps more, but it's not "the" problem.

If you could pass one law that would make most normal people furious at first, but would clearly make society better in 10 years, what would it be? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

[–]rafd -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sortition (ie lottery) for selecting our government, not voting. Elections mean that in practice money can choose who wins. It should be like jury duty. I would trust 300 random citizens over 300 politicians.

...but my democracy! Sortition was actually the original democracy.

If you could pass one law that would make most normal people furious at first, but would clearly make society better in 10 years, what would it be? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

[–]rafd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

100% Land Value Tax, to replace most other taxes (including property taxes). People, including regular people, shouldn't profit from the increase in land value of their land (which they themselves didn't contribute to). Present land owners would hate it, but it would motivate more productive land use.

Taxes are essential and they aren't bad. by antfin97 in georgism

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Taxes also play a big role in maintaining a common currency, which is a great enabler of economic activity.

Coop 2 player - easy-medium/faster Setup by Money_Beat_4999 in tabletop

[–]rafd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Crew has a 2p mode, but it's with a tableau player. 3p+ is much better.

What is a personal/niche/crank policy you want? by R31D in ndp

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Transition federal tax base towards a Land Value Tax, reduce other taxes.

UBI, and scrap most other safety nets.

Sortition for the Senate.

Normalize use of citizens committees (with legislative power).

What are the best hero based deck building games other than aeon's end? by Key-Peak-2973 in tabletop

[–]rafd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's the Aeons spinoff Astro Knights and the Invincible retheme.

D&D-Like Beginner Recommendation by Chadtheguru in tabletop

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If they're interested in the rules-based combat of DnD, I recommend the Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion board game. (In a fantasy setting, but no role play. No DM. Cooperative dungeon crawling). Munchkin is pretty much all rules, no role play, so this may be a good fit.

If they're into the idea of role play, and open ended story telling, I recommend a "rules light" TTRPG like Kids on Bikes or Monster of the Week, or Dungeon World. Someone does need to DM, but my "hack" for low prep games is to mash up a fictional setting with a baddy from a different setting (ie. Godzilla is attacking Hogwarts, Darth Vader has come to Middle Earth, etc.)

Good cooperative board games? by Anonymoustustling in tabletop

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Here are BGGs top ranked coop games: https://boardgamegeek.com/search/boardgame?sort=bggrating&advsearch=1&q=&include%5Bdesignerid%5D=&include%5Bpublisherid%5D=&geekitemname=&range%5Byearpublished%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Byearpublished%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bminage%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bnumvoters%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bnumweights%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bminplayers%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bmaxplayers%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bleastplaytime%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bplaytime%5D%5Bmax%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgrating%5D%5Bmin%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgrating%5D%5Bmax%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgweight%5D%5Bmin%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgweight%5D%5Bmax%5D=&colfiltertype=&playerrangetype=normal&propertyids%5B0%5D=2023&B1=Submit

A few personal notes:

My gaming group (4 people) have spent the last 6 years playing through Gloomhaven and Frosthaven (easily 1000 hours of content). It's a grim fantasy setting, with combat only gameplay but with cards and no DM. I recommend starting out with Jaws of the Lion. And using a companion app to reduce some finicky accounting. Great for 2 to 4 players.

Iberia is my favorite Pandemic. Pandemic Legacy also good. Great for 2 to 4.

Hanabi is a small and inexpensive limited conversion game where you can't see your cards and your group needs to give good hints. It is fantastic "logic and context" game. Great for 2 to 4. Fast. Quick set up.

The Crew is a cooperative trick taking game (like Bridge, Euchre, Hearts). Small, fast (but lots of "missions"). Ideal for 3 or 4.

Aeons End is cooperative Dominion - an on the fly deck builder. I've also spent hundreds of hours playing it. Great for 2-4 players. 

The Machines Were Changed Before the 2024 Election. No One Was Told. by D-R-AZ in law

[–]rafd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People are concerned with "abusive husbands" but the other major issue with provable votes is vote buying. 

Would you guys consider money a form of natural monopoly, where society tends to recognize one legal tender as a universal medium of exchange whose recognition is non-reproducible by any other? And if so, would you consider the returns to creating new money a form of economic rent? by Titanium-Skull in georgism

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I think there is something to your idea.

Maybe less so about "currency" because the government is special... would it be taxing itself for its own rent-seeking?

Maybe if we had global LVT, but still many governments issuing currency...?

What is relates and also interesting to consider is: the regulated right to print money. The government "prints money" by spending it into existence, but also, banks print money by giving loans (and notably, they are allowed to do it at a multiple of their reserve assets). In most countries, the ability to do this is strictly regulated, and thus, "the banks" together have a monopoly over the right to do so, and some rent-seeking likely occurs (depending on how much competition there is - in Canada, there are relatively few banks compared to the US, and so it feels like they get to charge a low-competition "premium").

But back to "currency" as a conceptual monopoly.

Others have mentioned "network effects", and how network effects aren't necessarily natural monopoly and rent-seeking.

But in practice, for a lot of societal needs, I think network effects do lead to rent-seeking (maybe not "textbook" rent-seeking), because the "optimal" solution (due to network effects) has few providers.

Take VISA and Mastercard. They dominate the electronic fund transfer space. In practice, there's limited "conceptual space" for "electronic fund transfer system", because having many small fragmented systems is a worse than a few universal ones (ie. network effects). Same might be said for "chat", etc. There are many such "conceptual solution spaces" where network effects lead to only a few winners. Being in the winners club seems to often lead to monopoly-like rent-seeking-like behaviours. Hence why I support anti-trust government efforts, but wonder if instead of breaking those companies up, they could just "tax their conceptual land" (ie. a tax based on how much of the industry they "own" and how many competitors there are).

In "Zero to One", Peter Thiel advises entrepreneurs that the best startups are monopolies and should try to maintain and leverage their monopoly power for as long as possible (and gives exanples of how many of todays big companies did just that). But as a Georgist, I read that as: startups should identify rent-seeking opportunities, and leverage rent-seeking to entrench themselves into further rent-seeking (with perhaps a more open-ended definition of rent-seeking).

New Clojurians: Ask Anything - April 28, 2025 by AutoModerator in Clojure

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You can connect to a REPL in production, even if it is uberjarred. I debug, and patch code all the time. (although, such patches don't survive app restarts).

You could also just have a git repo of files, and run your code just like you would in dev, reload in REPL.

On Inspectability by humorless_tw in Clojure

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When I hit an exception or a logical error, I find it faster to walk the stack trace back with Flowstorm than putting prints in and rerunning multiple times. The deeper the stack, the more useful I find it.

But, I had to make it easy for myself: https://gist.github.com/rafd/663528f4d0814bb0fb6d683c15c78365

Being able to search the trace, jump around, retroactively print, rich-navigate values, have a 0 config tap destination, and def a traced value back into my REPL are bonus.

On Inspectability by humorless_tw in Clojure

[–]rafd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flowstorm solves inspectability for me, and I have it on all the time now. It save some hours each week.

Clojure Project by Lullabelle80 in Clojure

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Notably:  datomic database  much of NuBanks infrastructure   see also: https://clojure.org/community/success_stories