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It protects from the first drone, but what about the second?

To spin the blades, the kinetic energy of the air is converted to kinetic energy of the blades. All turbines slow the fluid they operate on.

You might as well turn down your fan speed if you want to save some energy.

A downstream turbine will slow the air down and make the original fan less effective at its purpose. 

Us too! From the book: "How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk". Good advice for talking to people in general. When we get emotional it's basically regressing to childhood for most people.

Awesome. I need to stew on this more, but I appreciate the applyication of some new economic ideas in a Georgist context. 

Any further reading related to the theory of "the market eventually pushing wages down to subsistence?"

Worth noting that the land tax should increase revenues over time if the country's real economy improves.

No Pigouvian tax on pollution, co2 emissions? Resource extraction taxes?

Also, is the sovereign fund in local equity or international? For local equity, from an MMT lens, it feels circular to introduce a higher tax, to provide liquidity for private investors, hold, then consume that liquidity, for purpose of lowering said tax. Providing capital for local risky projects is valuable in of itself, I guess. For international equity, I see it as a communal forced investment diversification scheme, which does have value too.

I meant "promotes development" in the sense that owners have to put improvements on the land to make up for the land tax (which depends on how well others are able to make use of nearby similar land), OR, they don't and lose money, OR they sell to someone who does have an idea for how to develop profitably, OR if the tax is misproced too high, the lot is abandoned.

This is is contrast to the present, where it is possible to speculate on holding an empty lot or lightly developed lot (ex simple parking lot).

But to your direct question, removing land speculation for developers can decrease risk. Now they play the improvement game only. Over the 10 year horizon of many projects, land value can go up or down. (I'm thinking here or condos in a city, where the deceloper eventually flips to the ultimate home owners). With a full land tax, the land transfer price is near 0. Yes, the land tax may go up or down in that period, but its an annual cost at risk, not the entire capital that is at risk. (So, say, 1/40 per year).

For developers who intend to keep the improvement, I acknowledge the risk that the land tax can eventually grow from under them and make them unprofitable. I don't know if this a greater or lesser risk than current land speculation (you have to buy based on the market predicted future gains of that location, and hope that you know better than the market or that the market is correct).

I agree with you that land taxes take "economic rent" that is currently captured by a landlord and just transfer it to the state. The consumer still pays the same... Except... Land taxes motivate more development (increasing supply of housing, decreasing prices). They also decrease or eliminate speculation (which also decreases prices).

Hanabi

Pandemic (I like Iberia. There's a LOTR version now too)

I'm curious who convenes juries? Are there any standing juries (for continuous or repeated needs)? Do standing juries shift gradually over time? 

This hits all 3 of my top "reforms I want to see": sortition-based governance, lvt and ubi. 

...now if only I was allowed to move to the US.

Also, Pandemic and Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion.

I like playing coops with my partner, so a +1 for Sky Team, and I'll throw Hanabi into the mix too.

Tech companies still need offices and data centers that use land. Their employees still use land. 

But yeah, from a Georgist perspective, tech companies are probably some of the most land-efficient profit and value makers, and that's not a bad thing.

Many Georgists also want to reform parent law, which the tech companies do heavily rely on.

Land tax is meant to address a specific flaw in how things are done currently.

"Taxing the most powerful corporations" is a seperate policy goal that is mostly outside the scope of Georgism. People on this sub may or may not support taxing mega corps more, but it's not "the" problem.

Sortition (ie lottery) for selecting our government, not voting. Elections mean that in practice money can choose who wins. It should be like jury duty. I would trust 300 random citizens over 300 politicians.

...but my democracy! Sortition was actually the original democracy.

100% Land Value Tax, to replace most other taxes (including property taxes). People, including regular people, shouldn't profit from the increase in land value of their land (which they themselves didn't contribute to). Present land owners would hate it, but it would motivate more productive land use.

Taxes also play a big role in maintaining a common currency, which is a great enabler of economic activity.

The Crew has a 2p mode, but it's with a tableau player. 3p+ is much better.

Transition federal tax base towards a Land Value Tax, reduce other taxes.

UBI, and scrap most other safety nets.

Sortition for the Senate.

Normalize use of citizens committees (with legislative power).

There's the Aeons spinoff Astro Knights and the Invincible retheme.

If they're interested in the rules-based combat of DnD, I recommend the Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion board game. (In a fantasy setting, but no role play. No DM. Cooperative dungeon crawling). Munchkin is pretty much all rules, no role play, so this may be a good fit.

If they're into the idea of role play, and open ended story telling, I recommend a "rules light" TTRPG like Kids on Bikes or Monster of the Week, or Dungeon World. Someone does need to DM, but my "hack" for low prep games is to mash up a fictional setting with a baddy from a different setting (ie. Godzilla is attacking Hogwarts, Darth Vader has come to Middle Earth, etc.)

Here are BGGs top ranked coop games: https://boardgamegeek.com/search/boardgame?sort=bggrating&advsearch=1&q=&include%5Bdesignerid%5D=&include%5Bpublisherid%5D=&geekitemname=&range%5Byearpublished%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Byearpublished%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bminage%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bnumvoters%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bnumweights%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bminplayers%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bmaxplayers%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bleastplaytime%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bplaytime%5D%5Bmax%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgrating%5D%5Bmin%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgrating%5D%5Bmax%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgweight%5D%5Bmin%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgweight%5D%5Bmax%5D=&colfiltertype=&playerrangetype=normal&propertyids%5B0%5D=2023&B1=Submit

A few personal notes:

My gaming group (4 people) have spent the last 6 years playing through Gloomhaven and Frosthaven (easily 1000 hours of content). It's a grim fantasy setting, with combat only gameplay but with cards and no DM. I recommend starting out with Jaws of the Lion. And using a companion app to reduce some finicky accounting. Great for 2 to 4 players.

Iberia is my favorite Pandemic. Pandemic Legacy also good. Great for 2 to 4.

Hanabi is a small and inexpensive limited conversion game where you can't see your cards and your group needs to give good hints. It is fantastic "logic and context" game. Great for 2 to 4. Fast. Quick set up.

The Crew is a cooperative trick taking game (like Bridge, Euchre, Hearts). Small, fast (but lots of "missions"). Ideal for 3 or 4.

Aeons End is cooperative Dominion - an on the fly deck builder. I've also spent hundreds of hours playing it. Great for 2-4 players. 

People are concerned with "abusive husbands" but the other major issue with provable votes is vote buying. 

"first mover advantage" is code for "tharr be rent-seeking in dem hills"

I think there is something to your idea.

Maybe less so about "currency" because the government is special... would it be taxing itself for its own rent-seeking?

Maybe if we had global LVT, but still many governments issuing currency...?

What is relates and also interesting to consider is: the regulated right to print money. The government "prints money" by spending it into existence, but also, banks print money by giving loans (and notably, they are allowed to do it at a multiple of their reserve assets). In most countries, the ability to do this is strictly regulated, and thus, "the banks" together have a monopoly over the right to do so, and some rent-seeking likely occurs (depending on how much competition there is - in Canada, there are relatively few banks compared to the US, and so it feels like they get to charge a low-competition "premium").

But back to "currency" as a conceptual monopoly.

Others have mentioned "network effects", and how network effects aren't necessarily natural monopoly and rent-seeking.

But in practice, for a lot of societal needs, I think network effects do lead to rent-seeking (maybe not "textbook" rent-seeking), because the "optimal" solution (due to network effects) has few providers.

Take VISA and Mastercard. They dominate the electronic fund transfer space. In practice, there's limited "conceptual space" for "electronic fund transfer system", because having many small fragmented systems is a worse than a few universal ones (ie. network effects). Same might be said for "chat", etc. There are many such "conceptual solution spaces" where network effects lead to only a few winners. Being in the winners club seems to often lead to monopoly-like rent-seeking-like behaviours. Hence why I support anti-trust government efforts, but wonder if instead of breaking those companies up, they could just "tax their conceptual land" (ie. a tax based on how much of the industry they "own" and how many competitors there are).

In "Zero to One", Peter Thiel advises entrepreneurs that the best startups are monopolies and should try to maintain and leverage their monopoly power for as long as possible (and gives exanples of how many of todays big companies did just that). But as a Georgist, I read that as: startups should identify rent-seeking opportunities, and leverage rent-seeking to entrench themselves into further rent-seeking (with perhaps a more open-ended definition of rent-seeking).