MMC: Mansions, Mobilitarianism, Caves of Steel.
This world could really work, and what's more, would make a great near-future setting. 
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Mobilitarianism: Open borders, everywhere except at city and mansion limits.
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Caves of Steel: Asimovian cities that are so high-tech and constrained by regulations, you need some training just to live there. Funded entirely by mansion LVT and entry/exit taxes. Pay-to-play. Anyone can enter by paying the floating fee, but inside, food and shelter is free.
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Now this would be a fun world to live in. Also there would be robots. Lots of robots. Mansion LVT would be enforced by Skynet-controlled force.
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If you buy a mansion, you get to be called Baron. If you don't pay your LVT after 3 warnings, EMP burst cripples your mansion, the robots march in and toss you out. Then it's auctioned off. ex-Barons pay higher entry taxes into cities, but there's no jail.
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The clever thing about the MMC world is that it is the people who agree to mutualism who are confined into closed jail-like civilized spaces (mansions or caves of steel). The rest of the world is a hobbesian Mad Max hinterland. Radical freedom as the ultimate jail.
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The mansions and cities would be connected by secure transportation, supply chain, and comms, paid for by LVT. The would form an internet-like society. The interstices would be allowed to be rewilded. If people set up a new city or mansion, they can pay for an MMC-net hook-up.
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The problem with our political imagination is that we keep trying to add solutions to new problems to existing solution stacks. Not only does it all get worse it also gets more boring. Nobody wants to live in Westphalian Nation State Version 13.2, Service Pack 4.5.
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Ideas like UBI are like bug fix proposals. The sci-fi test: would you want to read a novel set in a world where your policy proposals are true? Or would it read like a dry, wonky GAO report with no story to it.
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