• R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Progress and Poverty, and you still can’t just have everything for free even in a better system.

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        10 months ago

        Wouldn’t the LVT+UBI that Henry George proposes effectively cancel rent and then some? We’d be getting paid 100% of the surplus from land use, not just a safety net.

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        10 months ago

        I’ll have to add that to my list, always looking to learn more.

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          10 months ago

          It’s a good read, makes you realize how swindled we got, and what we might have had if they’d adopted these ideas in the late 1800’s.

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        10 months ago

        Considering you cant name a book, i doubt it. I’m currently reading The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato and Yurugu by Marimba Ani. I cant recommend both of them enough. Its about culture as much as it is about economics.

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          10 months ago

          This is some hard hexbear vibes. Asking for titles of books read is unbearably cringe.

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          10 months ago

          I mean, no. I’m not going to go dig up the syllabus for my econ classes just to prove a point.

          You clearly don’t understand economics if you think paying for housing for 335,000,000 citizens is even remotely feasible without a major tax increases on everyone.

          Communism is a nice thought experiment, but it’ll never actually work because humans are awful.

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            10 months ago

            “Humans are awful” is why they call econ the dismal science; did they actually present that as a reason why communism wouldn’t work when your classes covered it?

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            10 months ago

            So you haven’t read a book on economics since you graduated, got it.