Re:Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds
by surgical_fire on Friday June 14, 2024 @02:39PM
(#40683626)
> taking from people who produce the most value and giving it to others.
Nice hand-wave. This presumes some people produce most value, and they bear the burden of carrying others (who receive value).
This is all very vague. I disagree with this notion pf how government works until you can be clearer of who you are talking about.
> Those people are society.
So is a drug dealer. Or a con artist. Among many others.
The state exists in part to regulate what is allowed or not.
Babysitters, Local tradespeople, their clients, etc and so forth benefit from it.
Re:Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds
by ossobuco on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:26AM
(#40688794)
> Nice hand-wave. This presumes some people produce most value, and they bear the burden of carrying others (who receive value).
I mean, that's actually how it works, only the people who produce most value are the workers, and the people who receive most of it are the capital owners.
Re:Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds
by surgical_fire on Saturday June 15, 2024 @12:42PM
(#40690845)
I agree, to an extent.
I seriously doubt that's the dynamic GP was referring to.
No - this is in the context of the constrasting "trickle down" theory (already derogatory, which you somehow missed). I took that to mean that instead of trickling down, we should be taking from people who produce the most value and giving it to others. Not we should replace trickle down theory with infrastructure spending - those are not related.
> "people making transactions between each other on what they find valuable" are looking only for their private benefit, society be damned.
Those people are society. Babysitters earning some pocket money; local tradespeople doing jobs; actual community things like churches and running clubs and schools and game cafes; local produce creators. Stuff to spend on locally. That's what makes up society, and those transactions are how it happens.
Society is not a bureaucrat allocating some funds to spend on a committee to decide how round bananas are allowed to be, or whether all children should learn new math or old math, the teacher's opinion be damned. The state is not society.