The less you understand about #Philosophy, #Politics, #Law, and #Economics, the more easily you are manipulated by people with power.

#Inflation is caused by private #ownership of the scarce common wealth resources for which people compete to obtain sustenance. There is no other cause of inflation. It's really that simple.

Earth belongs by right and in common to all the living. #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #Georgism #HenryGeorge #Geolibertarianism #LandValueTaxSolvesThis #LVT #UBI

LRT: And yet, every time we #Georgists point out that land is still and will always be the basis of all economies, we get ridiculed. Maybe the rich know something our detractors donโ€™t.

#Georgism #Geolibertarianism #HenryGeorge #LandValueTax #LVT #LandValueTaxSolvesThis #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #ProgressAndPoverty #USpol #LandPolicy

Intellectual Property Is Broken [Dean Baker]

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The Power of Land: Georgism 101

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The trouble with having seen the cat is that you can no longer understand how it is that others cannot.

#SeeTheCat #HenryGeorge #Georgism #Geolibertarianism #LVT #LandValueTax #SingleTax #JustRent #UBI #CitizensDividend #TheEmperorHasNoClothes

I just realised that the @internetarchive has torrent files, so I just added the entire 10-volume Doubleday 1904 edition of "The Complete Works of Henry George" to my BitTorrent server (which only holds #copyleft and #publicdomain works). #HenryGeorge #ProgressAndPoverty #SingleTax #LandValueTax #LVT #Urbanism #Geolibertarianism #Georgism #JustRent #politicaleconomy #economics #politics #polisci #uspol #SocialProblems #ProtectionOrFreeTrade

" The struggle through all the ages has been to preserve freedom from encroachments which could not have been maintained but for the State, and today there are many staunch believers in the authority of the State who nevertheless apprehend the danger of an unjust and tyrannical extension of its power over the industrial activities and private affairs of its members. "

โ€” John Sherwin Crosby, "The Orthocratic State" (1915, Sturgis & Walton, New York, NY)

#politics #polisci #geolibertarianism

#Geolibertarianism, a market-oriented branch of geoism, tends to take a direct stance against what it perceives as burdensome regulation and would like to see auctioned pollution quotas or taxes replace most command and control regulation.