Steam shovel on the Panama Canal, 1908 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarioModel90_1908.jpg
"We maintain a tariff for the avowed purpose of keeping out the products of cheap foreign labor; yet machines are daily invented that produce goods cheaper than the cheapest foreign labor...the only consistent protectionism ...would forbid the introduction of laborsaving machinery"
-Henry George
I'm never sure what images to include here but somehow making silk seemed like a representative example of 'producing wealth'
"There are a few people who have bigger houses than any one reasonable family can occupy; but the great mass of the American people are underhoused. ,,,Yet let a man put a house in any part of the United States, and down comes the tax-gatherer to demand a fine for having put up a house." -HG
No. 9 from the series Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joshoku_kaiko_tewaza-gusa_09_(from_the_series_Women_Engaged_in_the_Sericulture_Industry)_mfa230854.jpg
"If we want more wealth ⎯ if we call that country prosperous which is increasing in wealth ⎯ is it not a piece of stupidity that we should tax men for producing wealth?" -Henry George
"We should keep our own market for our own producers",
seems by many to be regarded as the same kind
of a proposition as, "we should keep our own pasture for
our own cows, whereas in truth, it is such a proposition
as, "We should keep our own transportation for our own legs." -George, PoFT
"We should keep our own market for our own producers",
seems by many to be regarded as the same kind
of a proposition as, "we should keep our own pasture for
our own cows, whereas in truth, it is such a proposition
as, "We should keep our own transportation for our own legs." -George, PoFT
Liberal Currents has published multiple Georgist essays over the years so I'm very glad to see them getting this funding! www.liberalcurrents.com/a-uniquely-a...
Engraving of Blackbeard https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_History_of_the_Pyrates_-_Blackbeard_the_Pirate_(1725).jpg
Page from the liberation day tariffs
"...in the Congress the benevolent gentlemen whose desire it is to protect us against the pauper labor of Europe quarrel over their respective shares of the spoil with as little regard for the taxpayer as a pirate crew would have for the consignees of a captured vessel." -Henry George
ORBIT 👏 VALUE 👏 TAX 👏
We have reached the point where, to borrow Locke's phrase, there is not 'as much, and as good' of orbital space available, and allowing companies to 'homestead' it will have the same monopolizing effect it had on the frontier
We have reached the point where, to borrow Locke's phrase, there is not 'as much, and as good' of orbital space available, and allowing companies to 'homestead' it will have the same monopolizing effect it had on the frontier
Monopoly today just has you go to jail for no reason.
The Landlord's Game made it clear that carceralism is inextricably linked to landlordism
Engraving of Blackbeard https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_History_of_the_Pyrates_-_Blackbeard_the_Pirate_(1725).jpg
Page from the liberation day tariffs
"...in the Congress the benevolent gentlemen whose desire it is to protect us against the pauper labor of Europe quarrel over their respective shares of the spoil with as little regard for the taxpayer as a pirate crew would have for the consignees of a captured vessel." -Henry George
"Under the existing tax code, an Upper West Side building with 16 apartments had an annual tax bill of $50,000 in 2017. After it was converted [into a single-family home] the levies dropped to just $12,000." 🤦
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
War personified as Mars: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=war+personified&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image
"Now, warfare is the negation of association. ... warfare, thus checks improvement... Where this power of peaceable association is broken up, either by external assaults or internal dissensions, the advance ceases and retrogression begins." -Henry George
This is fucking awesome and also I had a really great outcome of my performance review/merit meeting today so it's time for me to finally subscribe (long overdue)
Liberal Currents has published multiple Georgist essays over the years so I'm very glad to see them getting this funding! www.liberalcurrents.com/a-uniquely-a...
War personified as Mars: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=war+personified&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image
"Now, warfare is the negation of association. ... warfare, thus checks improvement... Where this power of peaceable association is broken up, either by external assaults or internal dissensions, the advance ceases and retrogression begins." -Henry George
Justice personified as a woman with scales in a painting https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Painting_of_justice_in_the_M%C3%BCnchner_Residenz.jpg
"To command charity as a substitute for justice, is indeed something akin in essence to those heresies, condemned by your predecessors, that taught that the Gospel had superseded the law, and that the love of God exempted men from moral obligation." -HG
smoke arise after a bombing in Tehran
"In that spirit of fatalism...it is the fashion to speak even of war and slavery as means of human progress. But war, which is the opposite of association, can aid progress only when it prevents further war or breaks down anti-social barriers which are themselves passive war." -Henry George
🔰🎉Personal news🎉🔰
On Wednesday I will start as Director of Strategy and Impact at the Progress and Poverty Institute (@pandpinst.bsky.social) , which is dedicated to advancement of Land Value Tax and other Georgist ideas!
smoke arise after a bombing in Tehran
"In that spirit of fatalism...it is the fashion to speak even of war and slavery as means of human progress. But war, which is the opposite of association, can aid progress only when it prevents further war or breaks down anti-social barriers which are themselves passive war." -Henry George
Shelter is an absolute necessity - nothing is free!
Monopoly today just has you go to jail for no reason.
The Landlord's Game made it clear that carceralism is inextricably linked to landlordism
Farmers pay their rent to the landlord in kind, painting by Peter Jacob Horemans
"Property in land means not merely a continuous exclusion of some people from the element which it is plainly in the intent of Nature that all should enjoy, but it involves a continuous confiscation of labor and the results of labor." -Henry George
The first square in The Landlord's Game, starting with one of George's first principles: - "as the rendering of labor in production implies the creation of value, the employer receives value before he pays out value"
When I run out of quotes from my Henry George Calendar I'll start using the cards from this
the original landlord's game board, with 'Labor upon mother earth produces wages' instead of 'Go' and 'Lord Blueblood's Estate - No Trespassing' in where now we have 'go to jail'
The original messaging was not subtle
The original game included a utopian ruleset where you paid rent on the properties you owned that was then re-distributed to the poorer players. Not a fun game but a good foundation for a better society
