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The discourse around housing affordability in the last election kept deliberately missing the point so now I’ve been radicalised into Georgism

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Joseph Addington

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Jun 1, 2022

Some people have been asking- "Who is this guy? Why should anyone care about someone with two first names?" A thread on Henry George and the Single Taxers, the most important historical movement you've probably never heard of

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It's interesting to see these things pan out in virtual settings too bestnftsbuyersguide.com/the-metaverse- I remember there was a longer article about EVE Online's land tax, but I can't find it again :/ Tl;DR: it drove out speculation and kept the game's economy running :D

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I had no idea that EVE had a land tax! Makes sense for a game with a professional economist working on it

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has written up an entire guide on this because land speculation is such a huge problem in many video games:

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How to handle land value tax in online games and virtual worlds

Lars Doucet and Daniel Cook share a high-level guide for game designers and game economists working in large multiplayer online games and/or virtual worlds.

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Just did a podcast with

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on this subject too!

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The primary source from this is here: gamedeveloper.com/design/how-i-u The comments have been lost since the transition from Gamasutra->Game Developer, but in the original version I asked the economist about his methodology

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How I Used EVE Online to Predict the Great Recession

While others have attempted to map "real" world economic models onto virtual economies (with mixed results), here I attempt for the first time publicly to map v

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I pointed out that the policy he was describing was essentially Henry George's Land Value Tax, and that's when I learned he had no prior knowledge of George and had re-derived the same policy from first principles!