A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves

Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by mrweasel on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:51PM (#36760621)

> This is a very engineering solution to a very not-engineering problem.

True, the solution very obviously to reduce poverty. It's a social problem, not an engineering nor a policing problem.

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by postmortembees on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:00PM (#36760744)

Agreed. It's surprising how often we are great at post mortem analysis in engineering contexts (asking "why" five times), but we find it uncomfortable to do the same in social contexts. We jump straight to "How" rather than "why", and build locks that inconvenience people in hopes of stopping that one "how" rather than investing in fixing the root causes.

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by teach on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:58PM (#36760723)

Land Value Tax would fix this!

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by bagels on Monday July 17, 2023 @05:29PM (#36764354)

We already have a land value tax. It's called "Property Tax"

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Re:A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves by postmortembees on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:35PM (#36775256)

Property tax is not land value tax. Property tax is a tax on both the improvements and the base value of the land.

Land value taxes are only taxes on the value of the land.

A land value tax would tax a giant residential building and the parking lot adjacent to it the same, which encourages maximizing the value of the lot rather than leaving it for parking.

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