3 ms·
My thinking is that all those things would be easier to address politically if doing so meant giving back that rent to the people
by CuriousSkeptic 7y ago
My thinking is that all those things would be easier to address politically if doing so meant giving back that rent to the people
- clairity 7y agobut the lock, stock and barrel shouldn't have been given away to rentiers in the first place. giving a token of it back to the poor just saps political will out of making the structural changes needed. inventing and making and doing is what should unlock profits, not simply just owning property (rents).
- CuriousSkeptic 7y agoI fully agree actually. It just happens that my suggested remedy is to extract that rent back by reshaping private property rights into leasing from the commons. Right now there is no political movement near any legislative assembly I’m aware with a geoliberal base though, so my hope is that if at least a practical policy from its book was part of the policy debate among the incumbents there would also be room for an actual geoliberal group to take place and shape it.
- clairity 7y agogotcha. in the US at least, there's little chance of that because property ownership is so tied to identity. i'd support some form of land value tax because it would nudge development toward the "highest and best use" of real property, but even that's an uphill battle here.