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Not the first time this happened. Check out "Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty), the book that kicked off the Progressive Era.


Ahh yes, Geoism. I have a lot of sympathy for some of the thinking there.


Wikipedia also has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism which is essetially the same thing but might appeal more to the traditional libertarian hacker demographic.

In German we have Silvio Gesell and his Freiwirtschaft.




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