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Re: Zucktown, USA

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This article's main topic is just "tech companies are building big offices", dressed up in some purple prose. And they're also to blame for high rents. But if they build apartments to help ease the housing shortage, that's a "company town" and we can't have that either. And Amazon is a "commandeering leech" which "suck[s] up our resources and refus[es] to participate in daily upkeep", but when Google offers Mountain…

Your last paragraph applies to so much in the media that it simply cannot be understated. Thank you for sharing this. I wish other people could look at all articles through this lens to see the biases that authors have.

The fact that someone down voted me is just hysterical !

Re: Zucktown, USA

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

See https://transformationdeal.org/2016/04/24/how-a-basic-income... for a very straight forward proposal.

Nice to see something like this adapted to the US, I've seen comparable proposals in Germany [0], also build on a similar base of taxing land value/production facilities. Imho it seems like pretty valid approach considering land is one of the few resources we recognize as actually being finite, so it's a good place to start for building a "base". On the other hand it's quite frustrating how accepting we have become o…

I don't see the connection between paper money and land value tax. One of the reasons economists like taxing land is that the supply is perfectly inelastic---literally fixed to be precise. So a tax can't distort the market.

If you can read German and like some historical musings in this direction (including about money), do read Silvio Gesell. https://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~roehrigw/gesell/nwo/nwo.pdf

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