I mean, land cannot flee. And it is inherently fair, this is why I support Georgian taxes, because the unimproved value of land can only appreciate through other people improving other land nearby.

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Georgism (otherwise known as geoism) is an economic philosophy holding that the economic value derived from land, including natural resources and natural opportunities, should belong equally to all residents of a community, but that people own the value that they create themselves.

Most Georgists support:

A broad-based land value taxation scheme, either to mostly or entirely replace existing harmful taxes on income, consumption, and corporations.
The social redistribution of this revenue either directly, through a Citizens' Dividend, or indirectly, through government programs, to citizens.
Some (but not all) forms of market intervention by the state.
The abolition of tariffs, quotas, patents, and other barriers to trade and commerce.

The Georgist paradigm crosses the left-right political divide. This means that there are statist, anarchist, progressive, and conservative Georgists.

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Educate people about the problems we face and what we can do to fix them.
Discuss potential measures, goals, and methods that could make our economies fairer, and the specifics of implementations of remedies to problems.
Organise meaningful political movements with the aim of enacting peaceful change.

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"Not a republic of landlords and peasants; not a republic of millionaires and tramps; not a republic in which some are masters and some serve. But a republic of equal citizens, where competition becomes cooperation, and the interdependence of all gives true independence to each; where moral progress goes hand in hand with intellectual progress, and material progress elevates and enfranchises even the poorest and weakest and lowliest."

– Henry George