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by senseless 9y ago
I'd like to see them expose the rat to a fruit or vegetable that's had a certain amount of the pesticide sprayed on it. And then expose another rat to a fruit or vegetable that's had the pesticide sprayed on it but was then w
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by senseless 9y ago
You're right, but the dividend portion of the plan linked in the top parent is meant to address the consumer's added cost. Poorer people would see higher benefit since they spend the least on carbon products but the revenue is ret
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by senseless 10y ago
I think you're mistaking SF and Hong Kong for being more similar than they are. Hong Kong has about 7.2 million people in about 107 mi² of developable land[0]. In comparison, San Francisco has about 840,000 people in 47 mi² of land. Ad
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by senseless 10y ago
Just the same, there are city neighborhoods where everyone down the block knows one another and whose families spend time together often, and suburban neighborhoods falling into crime and dysfunction where few community bonds exist. Neither
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by senseless 10y ago
No, it does not assume a fixed supply of housing. The law of rent revolves around the margin of productivity and already takes into account what you're trying to say. The wages extractable from the least valuable land would rise by the
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by senseless 10y ago
Exactly, Henry George is the most prominent theorist who pushed those ideas, and many more have used or expanded on them since.
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by senseless 10y ago
Good to see steps like this being made! As a slight aside, there are strong proponents who argue, based on Ricardo's law of rent [0], that any excess income above the basic subsistence level will inevitably be swallowed up by landlords