User:RD/9k/social Georgism (Q618)
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social Georgism
/ geoism [1] -> as laid out in the video I found it in, social Georgism works like this: residents on a plot of land are assumed to have economic value. everyone is given a plot of land or place to live. people are presumably allowed to trade land if they can make it more productive but simply not to keep it from anyone else. the people who control the largest plots of land pay a land tax. this supposedly gets rid of homelessness and coercion by landlords.
I feel like this is undermined by how ahistorical it is. it doesn't take into account the concept of political factions, and that they will always form if people have diverging countable cultures containing different forms of morality. the moment that you create Georgism in either the United States or Russia, you're going to get White people filling up land as fast as they can to make sure Black people don't have it, or Russians filling up land as fast as they can to make sure Ukrainians don't get it. each of those blocs of White Protestants or Russians is going to try to do their best to outlaw the minority and put them in prison just for being 'annoying' before they're allowed to have their own place on the land. in principle this kind of just leads back to Duginism-Zionism. like, if Israel wanted to create a welfare state? base it on the concept that every Israeli is equally entitled to a house but every Palestinian is not. as long as political factions have not fully separated out into entirely different countries to the point a multi-party Liberal-republicanism would be redundant I don't think Georgism is going to end well.
it all comes down to countable groups of people all each having a body of laws they wish would apply to everyone in the world, and each wanting to overwrite each other's morals and laws with their own. that is one of the major drivers of history, as strange as it sounds. if someone is telling you that populations smashing into each other causes wars, no, resources are definitely not the main cause of war, humans are much more preemptive than that. so the best summary if you want to teach people history fast is that wars are caused by laws. United States: it should be legal to take all the oil in Iran. Iran: that shouldn't be legal. war. the war doesn't start because the United States is already there taking the oil, it starts when the United States says "this is the way things should be". and I genuinely don't know how a society based on people having land and having land together in parallel can possibly fix that versus maybe make it worse.
Related
- Georgism is unacceptable because taxes violate human rights -> yep, you could see this one coming a mile away.
Ideologies or fields
- / philosophy of freedom