Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs
by lmm on Thursday October 13, 2016 @09:42AM
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George was right. Productivity is accelerating towards infinity, and that value is being captured in land values and being allocated to rentiers rather than the population as a whole. Tax land value and distribute the proceeds.
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Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs
by aninhumer on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:32PM
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I never entirely understood Georgism's focus on land value rather than capital in general.
Surely owning a factory is capturing the benefits of productivity just as much as owning the land it stands on?
Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs
by lmm on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:26AM
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Building a factory is a social contribution. More generally factories are (usually) subject to the normal laws of supply and demand: if they get too expensive, people can build more, if there are too many people can convert them into housing etc.
(if we have a fixed supply of factories e.g. because of zoning laws then it could become a case of economic rents. But the simple solution there is "don't do that then")