1. Give me an example of anything you made that wasn't rearrangement of raw materials.
2. Explain how does "everyone owns everything" work in practice and provide a reason why it is true. Here's an example - if I cleaned an unused piece of land and now are using it, and 20 years later you come into picture and declare that you're a partia…
1. Give me an example of anything you made that wasn't rearrangement of raw materials.
2. Explain how does "everyone owns everything" work in practice and provide a reason why it is true. Here's an example - if I cleaned an unused piece of land and now are using it, and 20 years later you come into picture and declare that you're a partial owner of it and I owe you money, what evidence do you have that your claims are true?
By this argument, you should have been paying him long before this, and your arguments carry even less weight.
In other words, this isn't a good argument. Why don't you try engaging the points? They don't go away just because you've concluded the person saying them is unpleasant to you.
One way occurs to me to assess whatever explanations are produced: imagine an entrepreneur spends a great deal of resources constructing the means to travel to the moon.
1. Suppose this is the only means of getting there for a very long time. Does the entrepreneur effectively own the moon? If not, under what principle would a Georgist justify ownership of millions of square miles of land that no one can get to except via that entrepreneur's efforts?
2. Suppose other means are assembled for reaching the moon, but by that time, a large part of it is occupied by people using the first entrepreneur's travel system (including possibly himself).
2a. By Georgist standards, they at least own whatever they built there. But do they now owe back taxes?
2b. What if the later systems are built only through information won by studying the first system? What do the later travellers owe the first entrepreneur? What does Georgism define as owed to first movers?
2c. What if the later travel entrepreneurs restrict usage of their systems in some way similar to the first (whether by scarcity, favoritism, or other motives)? What does Georgism do in general about land that is only accessible via great effort?
1. Give me an example of anything you made that wasn't rearrangement of raw materials.
2. Explain how does "everyone owns everything" work in practice and provide a reason why it is true. Here's an example - if I cleaned an unused piece of land and now are using it, and 20 years later you come into picture and declare that you're a partial owner of it and I owe you money, what evidence do you have that your claims are true?
Honestly man at this point you need to pay me. You aren't a pleasant enough person to talk to for your demands to carry any weight.
By this argument, you should have been paying him long before this, and your arguments carry even less weight.
In other words, this isn't a good argument. Why don't you try engaging the points? They don't go away just because you've concluded the person saying them is unpleasant to you.
One way occurs to me to assess whatever explanations are produced: imagine an entrepreneur spends a great deal of resources constructing the means to travel to the moon.
1. Suppose this is the only means of getting there for a very long time. Does the entrepreneur effectively own the moon? If not, under what principle would a Georgist justify ownership of millions of square miles of land that no one can get to except via that entrepreneur's efforts?
2. Suppose other means are assembled for reaching the moon, but by that time, a large part of it is occupied by people using the first entrepreneur's travel system (including possibly himself).
2a. By Georgist standards, they at least own whatever they built there. But do they now owe back taxes?
2b. What if the later systems are built only through information won by studying the first system? What do the later travellers owe the first entrepreneur? What does Georgism define as owed to first movers?
2c. What if the later travel entrepreneurs restrict usage of their systems in some way similar to the first (whether by scarcity, favoritism, or other motives)? What does Georgism do in general about land that is only accessible via great effort?