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The number one elephant in the room is that the cost of living is increasing while most salaries are not. It was supposed to be the other way around but urbani
by ThomPete 10y ago
The number one elephant in the room is that the cost of living is increasing while most salaries are not.
It was supposed to be the other way around but urbanization seems to be a major factor for why that doesn't happen mostly because of the increasing value of real-estate that comes with urbanization.
- eru 10y agoNot the first time this happened. Check out "Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty), the book that kicked off the Progressive Era.
- ThomPete 10y agoAhh yes, Geoism. I have a lot of sympathy for some of the thinking there.
- eru 10y agoWikipedia also has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism which is essetially the same thing but might appeal more to the traditional libertarian hacker demographic. In German we have Silvio Gesell and his Freiwirtschaft.