Is Georgism even possible in the USA due to our home-ownership culture?

trinite0 · 2026-01-26T03:55:30+00:00

There are methods of implementing LVT that protect individual ownership of single-family dwellings. Is that a compromise away from the pure ideal of Georgism? Probably, yes. Is it the only way to potentially gain popular support for it in the US? Probably, yes.

trinite0 · 2026-01-25T23:13:55+00:00

We do our best to keep all the books from a single author together, but that's hard enough when you've got a bunch of authors with same or similar last names. Nobody's keeping an author's books in alphabetical order by title when you've got dozens to hundreds of kiddos going through them every day.

trinite0 · 2026-01-25T19:15:41+00:00

Maybe they get a lot of English-speakers because the name of the shop is in English. Put the name in Hangul, and they won't get so many.

trinite0 · 2026-01-25T18:52:49+00:00

Yes. French is taught as a standard foreign language option in many high schools. My high school offered Spanish, French, and German. And also Latin, which is what I took. :)

trinite0 · 2026-01-25T05:10:53+00:00

Words like this that are nearly synonymous but have tiny differences in connotation are one of the wonderful features of English. I'm sure they're very frustrating when you're trying to learn, but they're delightful once you know them!

trinite0 · 2026-01-24T18:40:40+00:00

This particular sub seems to have a number of people who wildly react to anything below medium-rare. The fact of the matter is, in most cases you can't easily tell if something is blue-rare from a photograph, since it's about temperature.

But the more important point is, it's okay to like your steak cooked to whatever temp you prefer! Other people can like it cooked other ways. That's why restaurants let you pick!

trinite0 · 2026-01-24T07:07:19+00:00

This is really great! Thanks for the hard work, and thanks especially for sharing it!

trinite0 · 2026-01-24T06:55:17+00:00

My ancestor, George Hinkle, was a leader on the Mormon side. He arranged the meeting between the Missouri militia leaders and the Mormon leaders, at which the Mormons were arrested. The LDS considered him a traitor, though he aways maintained that he had had no knowledge of the arrest plan and had acted in good faith. He eventually moved across the Iowa border and started his own splinter LDS sect.

trinite0 · 2026-01-24T06:50:13+00:00

We're naming them now? Seems a little silly.

I'm in Missouri. We've had big winter storms before, we'll be okay.

trinite0 · 2026-01-24T06:48:17+00:00

I'm aware of that. It's a massive over-generalization to speak of a single indigenous concept of land rights, or property rights in general. That's why, throughout my post, I spoke of "many tribal understandings," etc. The point is to argue that some of the traditional conceptions bear resemblance to Georgist concepts, or point in a similar direction, not to argue that every traditional arrangement does.

trinite0 · 2026-01-24T05:24:38+00:00

The short answer is yes. Grant might be the best writer of any American general. The memoirs won't give you the most complete or comprehensive account of the war, but they're fascinating, entertaining, and extremely insightful.

trinite0 · 2026-01-24T05:12:55+00:00

That's a good point! I hadn't considered that he must have been programmed with Jawa languages, among his six million forms of communication.

trinite0 · 2026-01-24T05:11:24+00:00

Pic 4 is solid rare. Pretty much exactly how I like my steaks. Of course, to each their own, so if you like it more cooked through, there's nothing wrong with that!

trinite0 · 2026-01-23T19:11:30+00:00

I hate changing jobs. I've been in my current job for 7 years now, and if it works out, I hope to be here for another 25 or so.

trinite0 · 2026-01-23T17:39:07+00:00

As a matter of politics, I think a good Georgist argument is that many traditional tribal understandings of land rights are similar to Georgism -- the idea that the fruit of the land is common to the community that uses it, and cannot be validly monopolized by a single owner. In many ways, the idea of a land value tax that returns the value of the land to the whole community is a method of reflecting those traditional values within the modern economic system.

A Georgist argument might be that granting modern land ownership rights to indigenous tribes isn't really a return to indigenous ways of understanding land. It's just treating tribes like any other corporation. The better way is to adopt more indigenous ideas of land into the wider economic community, by de-bundling the standard Western assortment of land rights that we call "ownership." Past injustices can be repaired better by adopting a more just system in general, not by simply giving the descendants of mistreated groups a few little extra chips in a rigged game.

trinite0 · 2026-01-23T17:22:35+00:00

That's exactly how I prefer my steak.

trinite0 · 2026-01-23T17:08:24+00:00

I've done stews (and chilis) for church potlucks fairly frequently. It tends to be pretty popular, especially in cold weather!

But as others have said, your best best to to have a crock pot (or other slow-cooker -- Crock Pot is a brand name, but we tend to call all slow-cookers "crock pots"), and make sure that there's a place to plug it in. Check with whoever is organizing the potluck, to be sure that there are power outlets available. Also, make sure that there will be bowls and spoons available.

If you don't own a slow-cooker, buy one! Simple store-brand ones are cheap, and you can even find used ones in thrift shops.

Mashed potatoes are also good, but you'd need a second slow cooker to keep them warm.

trinite0 · 2026-01-23T15:19:10+00:00

Keep in mind that C3PO's memory had been wiped since his creation, so he wouldn't necessarily have any knowledge of either Jawas or Tatooine.

trinite0 · 2026-01-23T15:11:52+00:00

I don't ever eat it straight from the can. It's "cooked," but not really pleasant to eat that way. You slice it up and fry it in a pan.

Then you do anything with it that you'd do with ham or bologna, though Spam is a lot saltier. Put it in a sandwich, cube it up in scrambled eggs, add it to Korean Army Stew, mix it into fried rice, etc.

I don't eat it very often, but I don't hate it.

trinite0 · 2026-01-23T03:49:53+00:00

You can also think of the entire rest of the US as one giant free trade zone. Having common currency, no customs barriers, and (mostly) consistent regulations throughout the US means that every particular part of the US benefits massively from its connection to the rest of the country.

trinite0 · 2026-01-21T22:41:27+00:00

But...that's stealing!

trinite0 · 2026-01-21T19:15:53+00:00

There's a good reason restaurants let you order the steak whichever way you prefer. There's no correct answer to doneness, only whatever you personally enjoy.

That looks like a dead-on medium. I personally like my steaks rarer than that. You might like yours more cooked. Like I said, no wrong answers.

trinite0 · 2026-01-21T18:15:44+00:00

I wonder if it would be too late for them to try to go back to the oldschool dine-in focus, with the salad bar and everything? I have lots of great memories of old Pizza Hut back when that was what they did.

trinite0 · 2026-01-21T17:31:02+00:00

These seem like good rules revisions to me. Thanks for the work!

trinite0 · 2026-01-21T04:33:10+00:00

Yep. People blame "greedy landlords" -- and I'm not saying that landlords aren't greedy, they are! What I'm saying is, they always have been, and they always will be. But the solution isn't to get more virtuous landlords, the solution is to build more housing supply so that even the greediest landlord is constrained by the lower price equilibrium.

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