Georgism is an ideology.
They think the LVT will solve all social problems ever. That’s the premise of the book he wrote about it.
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TractorDuffy@lemmy.world 4 days agoWhy’s that? You stated your opinion knowing that many people are ignorant of it, but failed to back it up. Why should we research your idea when we have ideas of our own? Don’t suggest we’re ignorant if you’re not willing to take the first step in educating us. Your contempt feels good but doesn’t solve any problems. Ciao
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 days ago
madejackson@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This comment doesn’t have any value.
let me use it for capitalism:
Capitalism is an ideology.
They think the market will solve all problems ever.
He’s basically like Marx, but instead of charging for the use of something, he thinks taxing work and output will solve all society’s problems. Like communists, Capitalists think if you just understand economy and BELIEVE poverty will disappear.
Capitalism has a lot of merits, but it has lots of drawbacks. It’s difficult to punish someone for working, for one. It would also be highly inaccurate in the case of different amount of use of resources.
madejackson@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I feel you and I’m glad you asked. The goal of my comment is to invoke interest so one can go down the rabbithole on ones own terms. This has a much more sustainable effect than just serving information on a boilerplate nobody asked for. Much like a catchy title/thumbnail on a yt video generates clicks, but the actual information does not.
There are a lot of ressources about LVT out there including some educational videos in an entertainning way. Pick your own posion: www.youtube.com/results?search_query=georgism
My Standpoint: Our present tax system is bad (almost worldwide): Tax based on value generated (like income, sales and import taxes) costs society a lot (real costs but also opportunity costs) while simultaniously not solving a lot of todays issues (f.e. old money, zone planning / car centric design, pollution, etc.). Land Value Tax (or more precicely: Ressource Tax) solves this by getting rid of the penalty for being productive or creating value while simultaniously taxing those being exponantionally wasteful with ressources and/or pollute.
With LVT, there is now a penalty free incentive to increase profits and/or efficiency. On the other hand, if you consume and/or occupy ressources like land, oil or air pollution, you’ll have to pay tax for that. The sum of the tax would be similar or higher than todays sum and would finance all government spending including a citizens dividend which could be interpreted today as unconditional basic income which would provide for basic human needs.
Georgism is PRO Economy and PRO Humanity. Win Win. Regardless of your political flavor, you should be in favor 😏
Winners: Society, everyone from poor to rich, entrepreneurs Losers: old money, polluters, unrighteous beneficiaries of today’s flawed legal situation
TractorDuffy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s a great pitch, thank you, I’m sold. appreciate the work
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 days ago
madejackson@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Finally a fellow georgist. How does one work to promote LVT? You mean you got paid to do it and despite that, you are now against georgism?
IMHO, your reasoning is weird and blown out of proportion. Measuring value of land and housing is easy and is done today for the market, for insurance and for taxing purposes. This could be a reason for georgism to become unpopular, but it isn’t a reason against georgism.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 days ago