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An Unapologetic Paraphrasing of Bastiat's Apology for Landed Property

This is my admittedly snarky paraphrasing of Bastiat's rambling apology on Landed Property in his Economic Harmonies . I think by translating the verbiage into modern terms, which I couldn't help but do so with a pinch of sarcasm, it becomes clear he didn't prove much of anything at all. Instead, a reader feels underwhelmed by its points and overwhelmed by the verbosity of his rather banal parables. Even though he shows what actually causes land to increase in value when he describes the improvements of a city/town growing around land, he insists that all the gained value obtained by landlords by that mechanism is actually just the fruits of their past labors, ignoring his own supposition that value comes from the service provided, in the case of Land, by a better site to occupy, not labor. If it pleases you, enjoy the following: The economists of all sorts say that landlord's charge rent for value they did not create. Most say it is unjust, but some begrudgingly ad

Free Land, or the ideal mean for a Location Value funded Citizen's Dividend

If we want to liberate ourselves from one another, we can buy into the idea that we can more effectively share this planet. We can do so for the purposes of maximizing human autonomy and the experience of equal liberty for every citizen of the Earth, through each of their local communities. We have the means today to voluntarily buy into a federation of neighborhood scale land trusts with a global reach. Existentially, our birthrights are the greatest lottery of all of history. We can make that a game with winning odds for everyone. The desire to be free, to choose to live how we each wish to live, is strongly felt within each of us. But those who experience it most, unfortunately, value it least. They become so accustomed to protecting or jealously expanding their own experience of it that they have created a system of enforcing their own privileges at the cost of others. I believe all people ought to choose whosoever's service they wish to enter, but I do not believe any of

One with the One

I am. May I mind the serenity of being. Help me embrace the divinity of existence. This thread of being weaves everything together with potential to create, change, and continue, it's endless. I rejoice in awe. May I more freely share it. Help me to remember that wonder is just a word. There is nothing I can write to describe the feeling, its experience is beyond language. I convict myself with awareness. May I have the strength to toe the line. Help me to be humble but resolute. That joy felt in honoring others brings honor to myself, it's all an honor to you. I dissolve in your presence. May I find my truest form within you. Help me to accept my fears and my desires. The unknown holds the greatest treasures, it's waiting to be found. I empty myself. May I be further filled. Help me to grow as I overflow. Thy will is more than I will ever know, it's what it will be.

Infinite Individuality

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