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GEORGISM

Henry George's radical economic theory that land should be taxed instead of labor—backed by Einstein, Churchill, and MLK—explained for modern readers.

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What This Book Covers

  1. Chapter One - Land of the Free (Market)
  2. Chapter Two - Location, Location, Location
  3. Chapter Three - Meet George
  4. Chapter Four - The Idea in a Nutshell
  5. Chapter Five - What This Fixes
  6. Chapter Six - What This Doesn’t Fix
  7. Chapter Seven - Why We Don’t Do It
  8. Chapter Eight - The Smear Job
  9. Chapter Nine - Who Backed It
  10. Chapter Ten - The Simulation
  11. Chapter Eleven - We Don’t Need Permission
  12. Chapter Twelve - Why You’re Still Broke
  13. Chapter Thirteen - Rent Is the Parasite
  14. Chapter Fourteen - This Is Not Socialism
  15. Chapter Fifteen - Degrowth, Climate, and Justice
  16. Chapter Sixteen - The Cure Was Real

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Land of the Free (Market) RENT SHOULDN’T BE this high. Homes shouldn’t cost this much. And no, you’re not lazy or entitled for struggling to afford it. You’re simply alive in a system that rewards hoarding over building. Let’s talk about land. Not houses or skyscrapers. Not supply chains or inflation or interest rates. Land. The dirt under your feet. The invisible force beneath the entire economy. Every home sits on it. Every store depends on it. Every job, crop, pipeline, parking lot, and city block all require land. And yet, somehow, the people who do the most on the land… own the least of it. That’s not an accident. That’s the business model. Land was never invented. It...

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