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Henry George is a forgotten hero of american history, swept under the rug by today's corporate conservative-v-liberal punch and judy show: https://en.wikipedia
by recursivedoubts 5y ago
Henry George is a forgotten hero of american history, swept under the rug by today's corporate conservative-v-liberal punch and judy show:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George
When he died 100,000 people showed up at his funeral:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George#Death_and_funeral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George#Death_and_funeral
Can you imagine anyone showing up at an economists funeral today, except to heckle?
It's unfortunate that this project mixes Georgism w/ dehumanized modern architecture. Most people want to live in traditional, walkable neighborhoods, as prices suggest.
- larsiusprime 5y agoYeah as a Georgist I find this super-city plan pretty confusing. I mean if you're going to build a super-city go ahead and implement LVT, but it feels a bit quixotic to me. You could take all that money and put it into training the next generation of assessors to fix problems of chronically under-assessing land and you'd do much more immediate good for the world and spur much more development.