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> can we ... do what has been done for music to housing No, because unlike digital goods, houses (and land) cannot be duplicated at zero marginal cost. > So t
by perilunar 5y ago
> can we ... do what has been done for music to housing
No, because unlike digital goods, houses (and land) cannot be duplicated at zero marginal cost.
> So that we can stop working our lives into the ground to afford it.
It's not houses that are expensive, it's the land, and as long as people speculate on land then land in popular cites will be expensive. Read Henry George's Progress and Poverty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty
- himlion 5y agoAlso visit /r/georgism for a lot of discussion on georgism.