Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by branchless on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:03PM (#16571606)

How are devolved local states equivalent to private landlords? States capture land value via land tax and socialise this. Private landlords capture it and keep it.

Night and day.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by thaumasiotes on Monday March 12, 2018 @06:13PM (#16572170)

Are you referring to a feudal lord as a "private landlord" or a "devolved local state"? Both would be more or less fully appropriate.

"Devolved local state" is slightly more accurate than "private landlord", because unlike a landlord in a more commercialized society, a feudal lord was not legally able to sell the land he owned. He was legally able to govern it.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by branchless on Monday March 12, 2018 @08:57PM (#16573073)

My interest is that the feudal lord was living off the backs of others. The state taxing land to build hospitals is not the same thing.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by rexpop on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:53AM (#16667211)

You might enjoy Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17802312-stop-thief

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by thaumasiotes on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:03AM (#16573954)

Lords often got their start in lording by building a bridge.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet by rexpop on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:51AM (#16667201)

I would read the heck out of a book that purported this.

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