A possible justification is crime. I believe it is cheaper to pay someone enough money to allow them to survive and educate themselves, than to put them in a p

A possible justification is crime. I believe it is cheaper to pay someone enough money to allow them to survive and educate themselves, than to put them in a position where they weigh the risk of being caught with a crime with the risk of them/loved ones dying due to not having enough wealth to purchase the things they need. Currently progress leads to more poverty as wealth is concentrated to landowners collecting rent. Every increase in productivity is consumed by increases in rent payment. Holding land and waiting for it to become valuable is absolutely insane to me. It is theft from the common good to allow that speculation of land, out premium finite resource. Without land and labor combined their would exist no capital. By taxing land value, increases in productivity are swallowed up by increases in taxes, leading to increases in social wellbeing. I believe, along with most people who would call themselves Georgists, that private property is theft from the public