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Originally Posted by stekim
Not sure how you do that. You would be shifting the burden to a few people, relatively speaking. Income is easy to tax.
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I think the idea of Georgism at least was that it was eventually supposed to lead to a system where land is more in the hands of more people.
The problem is that it's from a century or two ago and the next problem is figuring out how to translate that to the modern day. The longer we go, the harder it is to fix systemic injustices without some other kind of injustice.
Isn't that the biggest dilemma of big change?
Addressing the injustices of the current age often means taking away from those who played by the rules... even if those rules were injust.
If life were a game, we'd just finish it and start the improved rules on the next one... but it isn't. We either accept an injustice forever, citing the problems for those who benefitted from the status quo... or we shift the rules to a more just system but end up doing great injustice to some people... at least in the short term.
So the lesson we can take from this:
People who claim life is a game are full of BS!