alastairmcgowan.bsky.social
At the edge of coherence. Complex systems and the adaptive mind. Cognitive science PhD. Lifelong interest in authoritarian psychology. Extremely moderate.
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Those views are a direct response to the fossil fuel lobby intent on killing the planet. Anyone not developing those views is a dinosaur or evil.
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The Landocracy and the Establishment are few but loud. We need to bypass them in getting the argument to the public and through Parliament.
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It becomes more intense with age, and at 4am on a bad day
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Land also differs from other property because it is simply space, not unlike the electromagnetic spectrum. It cannot be owned, it can only be accessed (tenure) so one person's access is everyone else's exclusion. How we manage that conflict is a social and economic fundamental swept under the carpet
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Feeling this
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One of the less discussed but likely strong reasons for the wide range of taxes on productive effort is that the political institutions have a lot of carrots and sticks to get their teeth into. With Georgism they would be minus a lot of work, and influence.
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Recent developments in AI combined with geographic databases promise to remove the core technical problem of land title assessment, and Wales and Scotland are toying with the idea of shifting Council Tax towards LVT, so the evolution in this rational direction would seem likely
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How close do split economies compare with Georgism, the idea that rents on monopolies that are inherently collective should be fed at soutce into public funding rather than recovered ad hoc from various streams of profit. i.e. renting out public goods for public good then letting markets run free?
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Yes but incompetently!
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A bunch of psychotic, intellectually deficient losers (assuming they arent actual bots) decided...
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The post
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They didn't decide anything, they reason from association alone and they have a toolkit of labels for you. Like human bots
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'decide' takes cognitive ability. Grunt does not sound right but I assure you it's the most appropriate term.
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Is true, we are clowns, hypocrites, all round degenerates
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It may not be equality but it is positive promotion of women. Would have been more positive if they had been selected for the first flights rather than follow ups
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Yep. Nobody has ever said that your atrocity of concern matters less than the present atrocity.
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Land Value Tax not only funds government but it also drives trickle down to workers and strivers
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And the reason why we haven't already done so: Our culture has made economics a winner takes all game, excused by the collective fiction of meritocracy. Because, social class cultures as presently conceived thrive on artificial wealth distinctions. Apart from Scandinavia of course.
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Insider dealing of any kind. We have that law in the UK. It is banned. Period.
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www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2020-05...
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Precisely why due process must be followed
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Also. What about the rights of landowners through whose land rivers flow and carry pollution. They should be standing up too. Public Nuisance is now a strong law on the statute that might be used to force pollution to stop
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If we had as a nation instituted a ground rent in return for freehold 500 years ago capitalism would have run far more efficiently and equitably as meritocracy rather than the monopoly it has become. We now have the tool of land registry on GIS databases making it all so possible.
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Resist