Re: The monopolization of the air and Georgism

From: sinister (sinister_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:46:51 GMT

"Socialism is a Mental Disease" <root@localhost.> wrote in message
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> On 11 Jan 2005 14:50:11 -0800, "ruetheday@outgun.com"
> <ruetheday@outgun.com> wrote:
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>>In my opinion, one of the most compelling means of highlighting the
>>injustice of land monopoly is the air monopoly analogy.
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> What land monopoly? Who the heck owns all the land?

No one person owns all the land. But certain privileged parties do.

Take the US, for example. Because of slavery and related racist
institutions, blacks were unable to own land. This discrepancy explains
some of the disparity in wealth between black and white households (which is
far greater than the disparity in income).

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>>If a personwere to invent a machine that captured all of the air in
>>the atmosphere...
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> One would call it Holocaust or Genocide or something like that.
>
> Any other silly examples?

It's not a silly example. It's a form of *reasoning*, showing that the
"right" to own land and capture Ricardian land rent is morally wrong.

"Reasoning"...you might try it sometime.

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> "A society that robs an individual of the product of his
> effort... is... a mob held together by institutionalized
> gang rule." -- Ayn Rand

Huh. How much effort does it take to collect Ricardian land rents from the
productive?

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