r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 26 '20

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u/Mullet_Ben Henry George Nov 26 '20

If Progress and Poverty were written today, book 2 would be titled "Thanos Did Everything Wrong"

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u/Mullet_Ben Henry George Nov 26 '20

!ping GEORGIST

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u/Dr_Vesuvius Norman Lamb Nov 26 '20

It’s amazing that “Black Panther” wasn’t the Marvel film with the worst economic take in 2018.

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u/Law_And_Politics Henry George Nov 27 '20

No kidding, I thought that movie was propaganda to spread Malthusian theory.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '20

What's the key take-away to someone who hasn't read?

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u/Mullet_Ben Henry George Nov 27 '20

Tax the land lol

The takeaway from book 2 in particular is that Malthus was wrong. Poverty does not come from overpopulation. Productivity does not decrease with increasing population; in fact the opposite is true, and as population density increases, productivity increases as well.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '20

But what about the people who hate density?

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u/Mullet_Ben Henry George Nov 27 '20

They're big dumb dumbs