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by kiba 8mo ago
Then they should be owned by governments outright. Provided that the community consent to it and are aware of the cost. Government provides crucial services that increases land value, offsetting any losses in tax revenue through public util
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by kiba 8mo ago
Property tax is an emerging issue. There are movement to end property taxes or limit them across the US. There is some opposite momentum toward the land value tax, which is a good thing, but these are less visible and likely weaker than a t
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by kiba 8mo ago
Construction costs should really have been driven down by the march of technology, but that really hadn't been the case. It's mostly stagnant IIRC. But construction costs doesn't really explain the housing crisis well.
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by kiba 8mo ago
They squandered their lead with the CEO's focus elsewhere.
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by kiba 8mo ago
The problem with a UBI is not the UBI itself, but the fact that landlords could just raise their price. You need to solve the contradiction within the economy in order to make UBI works. The current way our taxation policy work is to tax la
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by kiba 8mo ago
Don't tax labor, or capital which helps assist labor with performing economic activity ,or at least tax as little as possible. Instead, focus on taxing scarce resources, especially since we cannot make more of it. If it's natural
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by kiba 8mo ago
We really only practice it in one instance in modern democracy and that's jury duty, but that should be expanded into more roles and duties. That's one way to make society truly democratic. In any case, you might be interested in
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by kiba 8mo ago
Wouldn't say optimism is irrational. There are good things happening in the world in spite of all the bad things in the world. Pessimism that leads to a self fulfilling prophecy is irrational, but you still need a win. A win is fuel.
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by kiba 8mo ago
Nothing is forever. This whole thing rose in the first place because a novel technology was used to make weapons. To give another example, the whole modern anti-vaxxer movement was started by a doctor to sell bogus tests.
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by kiba 9mo ago
We should consider public funding for open source projects. Creating something for the benefit of humanity is great and all but ultimately, programmers need to eat.
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by kiba 9mo ago
Doesn't really fix the problem. All you done is distribute unearned income to a larger class of people. People's labor and capital will get absorbed by land ownership. You need to tax it.
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by kiba 9mo ago
UBI doesn't fix this because whereever someone live will start the process of someone absorbing income, regardless if it's income or not. You need to break the chain between income of people and land ownership by taxing land owner
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by kiba 9mo ago
I assured you that water usage can be mismanaged even with plenty of pipes and water infrastructure.
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by kiba 9mo ago
Just don't grade essay? Make it clear that eassy are optional and not required to get a grade, but it's a good way to learn. That will cut down the amount of work to be done too. They failing exams because they don't do the w
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by kiba 9mo ago
Subsides tend to get absorbed by monopolists of all kind. This is why UBI is a nonstarter. It will just get absorbed by landlords. This is why you need to break up monopolies or tax them. The problem is societal endorsement of monopoly righ
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by kiba 9mo ago
I am told that farms are optimized for labor efficiency rather than profits. These farmers often have a second job when they're not out there farming. With a low tax on land, we may not actually be encouraging the most efficient use of
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by kiba 9mo ago
Growing excess amount of food is part of food security, but farmers are going bankrupt because they focused on labor efficient agricultural commodity products to the exclusion of everything else. For many farmers, it's not even a full
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by kiba 9mo ago
Asset inflation going into non-productive assets like land or monopoly privileges. Tech monopolies are famous example of this, which is why they're large percentage of the SP500. Most loans are for land, which mean your banking system
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by kiba 9mo ago
I agree with taxing big tech, but more specifically the agglomeration effect of their networks, force interoperability whenever possible, and dismantling other non-reproducible privilege if possible but taxed if not. Otherwise, ample regula
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by kiba 9mo ago
Free and open source software provide a ton of value to businesses and consumers. It's right that tax dollars is used to fund what effectively is a public good so that we can all benefit from it even more.
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by kiba 9mo ago
Social programs often compensate for massive distortion in the economy. For example, SNAP benefits both the poor and the businesses where SNAP funds is spent on, but that's because a lot of unearned income goes to landowners, while pre
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by kiba 9mo ago
Network effect is basically the same thing as urban agglomeration in real life. The value of a city is from all the people aggregating together to provide goods and services and people are worrying about the housing crisis. So what is the c
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by kiba 9mo ago
I once partly cross verify a virologist's lecture. He confused a brother of an important scientist who made an important discovery. I have no doubt that he knows what he's talking about when it comes to viruses. All in all, checki
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by kiba 9mo ago
The scarcity is in the originality and creativity. Once you watch LotR, you watched like 20 percent guesstimate of all fantasy content because every fantasy stories involved elves and dwarves often enough. Which is why sometime when I wonde
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by kiba 9mo ago
Good point. Reality is more nuanced than simple overbuilding and underbuilding. Still, we aren't really still building enough housing and mass transit infrastructure. That may hamper us more than anything else. If AI proves to be as be
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by kiba 9mo ago
Everyone's rising on renewables. Renewable energy is just a victim of a heavily polarizing political atmosphere.
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by kiba 9mo ago
I expect China to overbuild and the west to underbuild.
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by kiba 9mo ago
Public funding from governments would make sense. Open source software are effectively public good.
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by kiba 9mo ago
Not really against welfare programs...but... UBI and safety net would just get eaten by economic rent. Basically your landlord would just raise the price of renting space leaving people right where they left off. You need to impose a tax ca
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by kiba 9mo ago
It would decrease land value since the park is no longer there. Tax revenue would decrease as quality of life decreases.

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