>For the record, I don't think any country or society owes you anything. If you want something, you should be prepared to work for it. The idea behind Georgism

>For the record, I don't think any country or society owes you anything. If you want something, you should be prepared to work for it. The idea behind Georgism is that people should own 100% of the value they produce while economic rents derived from land should belong equally to all members of society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism Curiously the idea of raising property taxes (e.g. rolling back prop 13) in order to shore up pensions is often met with stiff resistance on the basis that it's unfair, and that, presumably, society does owe some people economic rents.