Development of surrounding land increases land value yes, but the idea is that since the landowner didn’t do that development themselves, they shouldn’t be able to profit from it through increased value of their own land. “Land value” is kind of an amorphous though, another way to think about it is that we want to incentivize the most economically optimal use of land in high demand areas, thus we should tax all land proportional to demand (measured via price) to encourage those landowners who have undeveloped or under-utilized land relative to demand to use it.

(note this is counter-intuitively pro-environmental because it applies most to land with high demand, e.g. cities, not forest or farmland, and if cities can be successfully densified to satisfy housing demand, pressure to sprawl can be reduced, increasing those lands left to nature)

We need a land value tax to stop real estate speculation.

LAND VALUE TAX

Harmful tech such as inefficient forms of taxation like sales, income, and capital tax that reduce prosperity or exacerbate inequality (land value taxes are better)

there are none

not anymore

a land value tax would fix this

Everything should decentralize if possible

spider gonna be fed tonight!

unary!

The solution, as always, is a land value tax and UBI. Don’t need to fret over needing an education to live comfortably if you can already afford and place to live and food.

Specifically epistemology and concrete notions of degrees of truth and how truth is approximated by science.

new copypasta just dropped

Woh, Henry George us that you?

pretty sure it is xD

Nixos-georgist (?)

Relevant

Could you link to the James Streib audio clips, blatant threats towards employees and Linus going to bat for D-Brand’s racist jokes? I haven’t heard those allegations before.

Why Mozilla, Why??

Sweet!

Sebastian Langue and CodeParade Also fireship, primeagen, fasterthanlime among others…