| Subject: | [socialcredit] henry george | | Date: | Monday, August 15, 2005 13:44:07 (EDT) | | From: | Triumphofthepast <Triumphofthepast @...com>
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"Think of a landowner with two identical parcels except that one is a thousand miles from anywhere, and the other at a street corner surrounded by hundreds of homes." (Ryan)
1. I read a two-volume work by George, whose title I have forgotten, but I distinctly recall that it opened with an example just like this: A pioneer builds a house in the wilderness. How does the value of the land increase when a second pioneer family settles nearby, and a third, and so on?
2. Reviewing Chris Cook's very clever proposals in Triumph of the Past, June 2003, I wrote: "Society's distribution, by means of the national dividend, of the balance of new consumer goods and services not needed by the work-force [i.e., not needed as an incentive for labor] IS, IN EFFECT, THE PRODUCERS' 'LAND-RENT' PAYMENT -- for it reflects the fact that production took place in a PLACE and was beholden to the lord of that place (society in its money-creating function) for access to new goods and services!"
Comments?
Michael
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