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Re:Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal? by mmdoda on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:47AM (#29494577)
This isn't connect to just the scarcity of the land. People can live without bitcoin and the Mona Lisa, but you can't live without land. If you want to take this to the extreme imagine if somebody owns the whole country. Housing is a human right.
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Re:Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal? by wrycoder on Thursday December 09, 2021 @09:17AM (#29497565)
It is? It’s “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, not life, <deleted> and purported happiness under socialism, where you are assigned housing and a job.

Housing was guaranteed in the old Soviet Union, but if you didn’t cooperate, the housing was in the gulag.

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Re:Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal? by PickledHotdog on Thursday December 09, 2021 @09:25AM (#29497651)
Your daily reminder that not everyone on the internet lives in the United States
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Re:Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal? by wrycoder on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:01PM (#29541464)
Yes, those values are universal, unless the powers that be manage to convince people otherwise.
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