One of my best episodes ever. Lars Doucet is the author of Land is a Big Deal, a book about Georgism which has been praised by Vitalik Buterin, Scott Alexander, and Noah Smith. Sam Altman is the lead investor in his new startup, ValueBase: [ Ссылка ]
Talking with Lars completely changed how I think about who creates value in the world and who leaches off it.
We go deep into the weeds on Georgism:
- Why do even the wealthiest places in the world have poverty and homelessness, and why do rents increase as fast as wages?
- Why are land-owners able to extract the profits that rightly belong to labor and capital?
- How would taxing the value of land alleviate speculation, NIMBYism, and income and sales taxes?
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:11) - Georgism
(00:03:16) - Metaverse Housing Crises
(00:07:10) - Tax Leisure?
(00:13:53) - Speculation & Frontiers
(00:24:33) - Social Value of Search
(00:33:13) - Will Georgism Destroy The Economy?
(00:38:51) - The Economics of San Francisco
(00:43:31) - Transfer from Landowners to Google?
(00:46:47) - Asian Tigers and Land Reform
(00:50:53) - Libertarian Georgism
(00:55:16) - Crypto
(00:56:50) - Transitioning to Georgism
(01:02:30) - Lars's Startup & Land Assessment
(01:14:46) - Big Tech
(01:20:24) - Space
(01:22:39) - Copyright
(01:24:36) - Politics of Georgism
(01:32:44) - Someone Is Always Collecting Rents
