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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Replying to @sindarknave @bufordsharkley and
idk this kinda feels like step ~4 of an extended expanding brain meme that ends with recap'd "gmos are evil"
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Replying to @crossslide @sindarknave and
gmos are evil but grass made out of computionium is Good and Natural
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i'm not saying that i recently designed a piece of vegetation for Caves of Qud called "broadcast power plant" that's a bioengineered ficus using hybrid photosynthesis/photovoltaism to convert sunlight into broadcast power but
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