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Does Georgism work? Five years later

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noduerme · 1790477276 · focus · HN ↗
It's freakishly weird to see this at the top of HN. I had never heard or read anything about Georgism until last week, when I stumbled onto it after randomly seeing a photo of a 100-year-old billboard on the Wikipedia page for the term "speculation". I spent a few days researching it on and off. In fact, I just navigated to HN from the last page I was reading about it. It seems like a clever way to address a number of very pressing modern issues.
Serendipity, I guess.
1. perilunar · 1790485996 · focus · HN ↗
  Georgism has been mentioned many, many times in the 15 years you've been on HN. How could you not know about it?
  1. noduerme · 1790487029 · focus · HN ↗
    shrug I must've missed it. I guess the fact that I was enchanted when I read it last week, and I've been here 15 years, illustrates something about common zeitgeist that I had stopped ascribing to HN awhile ago.

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