Just discovered #Georgism. I personally believe land ownership to be inexcusibly anthropocentric, colonial, and racist, but in a world with ubiquitous land ownership, Georgism looks okay at first glance.
@nixCraft currently reading through Progress and Poverty by Henry George. Idk about changed my life but it has valuable insight and is surprisingly relevant to modern society IMO.
Basically #Georgism advocates for an #LVT or a tax on the unimproved value of land to discourage people from holding onto valuable land (e.g. in the city center) without using it to do anything of value.
Obviously this is a complicated topic and there is no one solution. Much more I am not qualified to explain here.
Council Tax is one of the UK's most regressive taxes, but there's good news from #Wales. The devolved government in Wales is planning to reform Council Tax, and has ambitions to eventually replace it with a Land Value Tax. This sounds excellent, and all progressive parties in other parts of the UK should be adopting similar policies.
mostly for demonstrating how the mechanics of ownership and rentals and taxes and stuff are open to change and that the world doesn't have to be that way
similar things with socialism and giving players a gateway drug to "what if the employees decided"
or "what if landlords and stock holders, bankers, and venture capitalists... didn't exist?"