EcoFuturism (in the Italian sense) is extremely my shit, we must glorify the immediate construction of floating islands for islander pops, the genetic engineering of coral reefs to thrive despite acidification, etc. We must not be content with merely cosmetic recycling programes!https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1011003823303770112 …
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Replying to @hikikomorphism
i was thinking the other day that a Georgist economic system would seem to incentivize the transformation of land and natural resources, which cannot be fully owned, into artificial habitats, which can i'm sure i don't understand Georgism worth a damn though
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Replying to @chaosprime @hikikomorphism
Even artificial habitats can't be *fully owned*, unless they take up no scarce location whatsoever. Location is a natural resource that can't be supplanted.
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Replying to @bufordsharkley @hikikomorphism
this seems to imply that a car is taxed according to the value of the space it's taking up at any given time, is that accurate?
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Replying to @chaosprime @hikikomorphism
In a world in which we didn't treat free parking (and a lack of congestion pricing) as a basic human right, yeah
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Replying to @bufordsharkley @chaosprime
This is very interesting and I'd like to explore a bit, would, eg, a herd of cattle be taxed according to their physical footprint or that of the grazing lands they required, water required by same, etc? (or some use-proportionate share of said grazing land tax?)
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @chaosprime
That's an interesting question. I suppose one could first say that the cattle could either be taxed directly (congestion tax on public grazing land, to avoid tragedy of commons) or indirectly (private grazing land is taxed, and may charge to whoever uses it)
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Replying to @bufordsharkley @hikikomorphism
it's not just the congestion with the private grazing land, though, is it? it'd seem to me like it'd have to be resource consumption too, i.e. eating the grass costs more than just occupying the space (esp. if you're pasturing goats who are going to close-crop it until it dies)
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Full Georgism requires grass-consumption meters on the blockchain for every grazing animal, tied to real-time prices based on the rate the grass is growing at
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Replying to @chaosprime @sindarknave and
It'll be advantageous to bioengineer the grass as to be capable of executing a neural network, optimizing its growth rate for maximum profit in a simulated market of sheep consumers
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