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Re:Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land by salawat on Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:24PM (#32533189)
They got a million dollar windfall in a market now shifting to where the average buyer is in a position to drop a million plus without blinking.

You can be poor, even with a million in such a market, and all that happens if you move somewhere cheaper to start again, is you perpetuate the cycle.

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Re:Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land by anon84873628 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @02:11PM (#32542813)
That's exactly the cycle of population growth. Either we build more housing to accommodate everyone, or poor people get kicked out by the rich.

The question is whether the Georgist solution is more equitable than what we have today. But no system can magically solve the problem of supply and demand.

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