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Re:Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land by salawat on Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:53PM (#32533440)
This is why Georgism is just an urbanizer's ideal; a gentrification engine, if you will.

It emphasizes putting things in the hands of someone that wants to do something with it rather than just maintaining ownership as an option until a voluntary sale is desirable for the occupant.

Gee. I wonder who could ever be behind a push to make it easier for developers and real estate investment firms to utilize artificially created economic pressure to rearrange the ownership landscape, while also pushing all incentives in the direction of urbanization above all else.

Re:Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land by boomboomsubban on Saturday August 20, 2022 @04:08PM (#32534814)
Right, Georgian is some fraud being pushed by the developers and real estate firms who currently have such little power to incentivise the direction of the ownership landscape. If a real estate magnate ever did something like become president surely they'd push Georgism through.
Re:Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land by boomboomsubban on Saturday August 20, 2022 @11:40PM (#32537209)
Autocorrect changes "Georgism" to "Georgian." I caught it the second time but missed the first.