If you want to know more about how I feel about domestic matters, you might enjoy reading Ralph Borsodi's "This Ugly Civilization" (1929) and "Flight from the City" (1933).
#RalphBorsodi, like me, was a #Georgist, a follower of #HenryGeorge, and an early proponent of what we would later come to call the "back to the land" movement.
You can find his books at the Internet Archive. "This Ugly Civilization" is now public domain, "Flight from the City" will be on 2029-0101.
In theory we are intense democrats. The proposal to sacrifice swine in the temple would hardly have excited greater horror and indignation in Jerusalem of old than would among us that of conferring a distinction of rank upon our most eminent citizen. But is there not growing up among us a class who have all the power without any of the virtues of aristocracy?
— Henry George, "Progress and Poverty" (1879), Book X, Chapter 4, "How Modern Civilization May Decline"
If only someone could have foreseen 140 yrs ago, looking at our great coastal cities like SF and NYC, this correlation between high land prices caused by economic progress and burgeoning of #poverty.
He could have written a book called #ProgressAndPoverty. His name could have been #HenryGeorge.
#urbanism #LVT #LandValueTaxSolvesThis #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #LandValueTax #SingleTax #Georgism #housing #homelessness #USpol
I wonder if #OpenStreetMap has urbex tags, I could tag the closed-down shell that used to be a Circuit City lol
@benlockwood The environmental movement is just a negative application of the labor movements principle that workers ought to get the fruits of their labor. Nature isn’t the fruits of anyone’s labor, but everyone has an equal claim to it including future generations. #HenryGeorge had the right idea.
' We’ve come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operation of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. '
#MLK #MLKday #HenryGeorge #WhereDoWeGoFromHere?
https://gcvrsa.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-henry-george/
' We’ve come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operation of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. '
#MLK #MLKday #HenryGeorge #WhereDoWeGoFromHere?
https://gcvrsa.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-henry-george/
"As soon as land becomes private property, the landlord demands a share of almost all the produce." - Adam Smith
"Rent is the secret tax the wealthy charge the poor." - Joseph E. Stiglitz
"Solving the land question means the solving of all social questions." - Leo Tolstoy
Recently learned that Half Price Books in Berkeley is closing on Nov. 30th due to a lease dispute with the landlord.
This is a real tragedy—Half Price is one of the best bookstores in the Bay Area. Many gems on my bookshelf came from Half Price.
I've long tired of great shops and stores across the Bay Area closing due to landlord rent increases w/ no property improvements. This is the kind of thing that makes me sympathetic to Georgism.
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