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In the long term, the ethically right answer seems pretty clearly to me to be a land value tax [0]. But due to encouragement of home ownership [1], that's not going to democratically tenable in a lot of countries for 20+ years. Unfortunate situation.

[0] In 1879, a man asked "How come all this new economic development and industrialized technology hasn't eliminated poverty and oppression?" That man was Henry George, his answer came in the form of a book called Progress & Poverty, and this is a review of that book - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/01/16/home-ownership-...

parent nmca 5 years ago

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