Other Ideologies: Georgism

[AndyC]

Discuss @Uhura Mazda's latest article here

 

[Skinny87]

I can't @ you for some reason, Mazda, but regardless once again you're able to make sense of an ideology that is so complex I'd be unsurprised if many of its adherents are confused by it

 

[OHC]

If there was any time for a Georgist revival, you'd think it would be today with the boom in urban property values and subsequent rent crisis / gentrification epidemic. Apparently not.

(I passed by Henry George's birthplace in Philadelphia when I was there in January - ironically, it is in a yuppie neighborhood and the land is almost certainly worth a fortune.)

 

[Roberto El Rey]

I find it a bit suspicious that this went up the very same day that I happened to go on a Wikipedia bender to learn about Georgism. Are you hacking into my browser history, Mazda?!

 

[Yossarian]

I find it a bit suspicious that this went up the very same day that I happened to go on a Wikipedia bender to learn about Georgism. Are you hacking into my browser history, Mazda?!

Yes and no. See, Mazda lives in New Zealand, where it's always tomorrow. So it's easy for him to ask you what you've looked up before you've done it.

That's how time zones work, right?

 

[Roberto El Rey]

Yes and no. See, Mazda lives in New Zealand, where it's always tomorrow. So it's easy for him to ask you what you've looked up before you've done it.

That's how time zones work, right?

This brings to mind John Cleese’s and Eric Idle’s conversation in which they reminisced about visiting NZ in 1964 and being shocked to see how behind-the-times they apparently were back then. I’m glad to see you people have modernized so much that you’re always one day ahead of us Yanks!

 

[Uhura's Mazda]

By the way, the Henry George Archives are awesome and you can read loads of pamphlets put out by various Georgist parties, including those of the Commonwealth Land Parties of Britain and America.