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Quotes and memes from Henry George and other cat see-ers
Congrats - and gentle advice to Mayor Mamdani -
"We are packed together in this city of New York closer than anywhere else in the world⎯ yet there is plenty of land here. Ride up on any of the elevated roads, and you will see plenty of vacant ground." -HG
www.landsearch.com/vacant/new-y...
"We are packed together in this city of New York closer than anywhere else in the world⎯ yet there is plenty of land here. Ride up on any of the elevated roads, and you will see plenty of vacant ground." -HG
www.landsearch.com/vacant/new-y...
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Congrats - and gentle advice to Mayor Mamdani -
"We are packed together in this city of New York closer than anywhere else in the world⎯ yet there is plenty of land here. Ride up on any of the elevated roads, and you will see plenty of vacant ground." -HG
www.landsearch.com/vacant/new-y...
"We are packed together in this city of New York closer than anywhere else in the world⎯ yet there is plenty of land here. Ride up on any of the elevated roads, and you will see plenty of vacant ground." -HG
www.landsearch.com/vacant/new-y...
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Justice..is grounded in the physical reality of the world we inhabit and how we relate with one another. When we understand that human labor stands out against the backdrop of natural entropy, we see why moral claims must rest on the boundary between the natural and the human– made. -Mihali Felipe
The Origin of Moral Claims - The Progress and Poverty Institute
At the heart of the human concept of justice lies a subtle but profound truth: not all changes in the world are equal. Some occur naturally, such as rivers carving valleys or storms reshaping coastlin...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Justice..is grounded in the physical reality of the world we inhabit and how we relate with one another. When we understand that human labor stands out against the backdrop of natural entropy, we see why moral claims must rest on the boundary between the natural and the human– made. -Mihali Felipe
Justice..is grounded in the physical reality of the world we inhabit and how we relate with one another. When we understand that human labor stands out against the backdrop of natural entropy, we see why moral claims must rest on the boundary between the natural and the human– made. -Mihali Felipe
The Origin of Moral Claims - The Progress and Poverty Institute
At the heart of the human concept of justice lies a subtle but profound truth: not all changes in the world are equal. Some occur naturally, such as rivers carving valleys or storms reshaping coastlin...
progressandpovertyinstitute.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Justice..is grounded in the physical reality of the world we inhabit and how we relate with one another. When we understand that human labor stands out against the backdrop of natural entropy, we see why moral claims must rest on the boundary between the natural and the human– made. -Mihali Felipe
"The vice and misery that come of want can no more be attributed to... Nature than can the six millions slain by the sword of Genghis Khan... or the extermination of the aboriginal inhabitants of the West Indies." -Henry George, who likely would not have celebrated Columbus Day
October 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"The vice and misery that come of want can no more be attributed to... Nature than can the six millions slain by the sword of Genghis Khan... or the extermination of the aboriginal inhabitants of the West Indies." -Henry George, who likely would not have celebrated Columbus Day
"The vice and misery that come of want can no more be attributed to…Nature than can the six millions slain by the sword of Genghis Khan" -Henry George, Progress and Poverty
October 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"The vice and misery that come of want can no more be attributed to…Nature than can the six millions slain by the sword of Genghis Khan" -Henry George, Progress and Poverty
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I would guess both Douglass and George drew from Paine:
"It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, cultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."
"It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, cultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."
February 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I would guess both Douglass and George drew from Paine:
"It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, cultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."
"It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, cultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."
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Love this picture because you can’t tell if it’s a navel blockade or tariff enforcement
Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do. Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons -Henry George
September 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Love this picture because you can’t tell if it’s a navel blockade or tariff enforcement
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The Henry George was right about most things
Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do. Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons -Henry George
September 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The Henry George was right about most things
Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do. Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons -Henry George
September 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do. Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons -Henry George
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Tariffs won't protect industry. They'll only ensure that it'll be uncompetitive when exposed to competition...and in a society where there's votes to be found in lowering prices, industry will eventually be exposed to competition.
I'm for a sensible industrial policy, and so I'm against tariffs.
I'm for a sensible industrial policy, and so I'm against tariffs.
September 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Tariffs won't protect industry. They'll only ensure that it'll be uncompetitive when exposed to competition...and in a society where there's votes to be found in lowering prices, industry will eventually be exposed to competition.
I'm for a sensible industrial policy, and so I'm against tariffs.
I'm for a sensible industrial policy, and so I'm against tariffs.
There is something in the very word “protection” that ought to make workingmen cautious of accepting anything presented to them under it. The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny⎯the plea of monarchy, or aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. -H George
September 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There is something in the very word “protection” that ought to make workingmen cautious of accepting anything presented to them under it. The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny⎯the plea of monarchy, or aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. -H George
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"If we ever again have a foreign war it will be of our own making. And too strong to fear aggression, we ought to be too just to commit it" -Henry George
September 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"The original deeds were written with the sword, rather than with the pen: not lawyers, but soldiers, were the conveyancers: blows were the current coin given in payment; and for seals, blood was used in preference to wax. Could valid claims be thus constituted? Hardly." H. Spencer
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"The original deeds were written with the sword, rather than with the pen: not lawyers, but soldiers, were the conveyancers: blows were the current coin given in payment; and for seals, blood was used in preference to wax. Could valid claims be thus constituted? Hardly." H. Spencer
How is it possible for them to be privileged with high incomes due to their high levels of human capital and yet not have enough spending power to rent homes on their own?
Where could the money be going?
Guess we'll never know
Where could the money be going?
Guess we'll never know
Apparently Mamdani voters are the most privileged class in history AND are bitter about having no money and living in an apartment with 3 roommates into their 30s.
Pick a damn lane.
Pick a damn lane.
July 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
How is it possible for them to be privileged with high incomes due to their high levels of human capital and yet not have enough spending power to rent homes on their own?
Where could the money be going?
Guess we'll never know
Where could the money be going?
Guess we'll never know
"If we ever again have a foreign war it will be of our own making. And too strong to fear aggression, we ought to be too just to commit it" -Henry George
June 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"If we ever again have a foreign war it will be of our own making. And too strong to fear aggression, we ought to be too just to commit it" -Henry George
The wag who started the "forty acres and a mule" idea among the black people of the South was a wise fool; wise in that he enunciated a principle which every argument of sound policy should have dictated...a fool because he designed simply to impose upon the credulity and ignorance of his victims.
June 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The wag who started the "forty acres and a mule" idea among the black people of the South was a wise fool; wise in that he enunciated a principle which every argument of sound policy should have dictated...a fool because he designed simply to impose upon the credulity and ignorance of his victims.
For instance, the decline of civilization as manifested in government would not take us back from republicanism to constitutional monarchy, and thence to the feudal system; it would take us to imperatorship and anarchy. -Henry George, Progress and Poverty
June 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
For instance, the decline of civilization as manifested in government would not take us back from republicanism to constitutional monarchy, and thence to the feudal system; it would take us to imperatorship and anarchy. -Henry George, Progress and Poverty
What if we could tax larger estates fairly but without having to define a particular cutoff point? Might there be a tool for that?
I am all for taxing large luxury homes to discourage them but as @buildhomes.bsky.social pointed out in the replies, the threshold of 1,750SF is a townhome! We should tax large homes, not those. Threshold should be 2,500 SF
NEW STORY // Kenmore Considers McMansion Tax in Zoning Overhaul www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/28/k...
May 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
What if we could tax larger estates fairly but without having to define a particular cutoff point? Might there be a tool for that?
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Paying income taxes: an hours long ordeal involving 8 different pieces of Mail, an excel spreadsheet, and fear of arrest
Paying property taxes: click a website. Type 23 numbers. Click ‘okay’.
This Is The Way, people
Paying property taxes: click a website. Type 23 numbers. Click ‘okay’.
This Is The Way, people
April 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Paying income taxes: an hours long ordeal involving 8 different pieces of Mail, an excel spreadsheet, and fear of arrest
Paying property taxes: click a website. Type 23 numbers. Click ‘okay’.
This Is The Way, people
Paying property taxes: click a website. Type 23 numbers. Click ‘okay’.
This Is The Way, people
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The state goal of ICE is to end all the benefits Henry George identified from trade
Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge... men in one place have been enabled not only to obtain the products, but to profit by the observations, discoveries and inventions of men in other places. -HG, Protection or Free Trade
April 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The state goal of ICE is to end all the benefits Henry George identified from trade
Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge... men in one place have been enabled not only to obtain the products, but to profit by the observations, discoveries and inventions of men in other places. -HG, Protection or Free Trade
April 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge... men in one place have been enabled not only to obtain the products, but to profit by the observations, discoveries and inventions of men in other places. -HG, Protection or Free Trade
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Pretty good illustration that the problem with trailers (which seems to have whooshed over the meme maker's head) is that they often have no foundation and the reason they have no foundation is that they don't come with land - which is the part of the 'house' package that appreciates in value
April 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Pretty good illustration that the problem with trailers (which seems to have whooshed over the meme maker's head) is that they often have no foundation and the reason they have no foundation is that they don't come with land - which is the part of the 'house' package that appreciates in value
"Protective tariffs make more work, in the sense in which the spilling of grease over her kitchen floor makes more work for the housewife, or as a rain that wets his hay makes more work for the farmer" -Henry George, Protection or Free Trade
Building an economy on spilt grease and wet hay
Trade barriers are having the impacts liberals expected. Those who denied it are suffering
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April 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"Protective tariffs make more work, in the sense in which the spilling of grease over her kitchen floor makes more work for the housewife, or as a rain that wets his hay makes more work for the farmer" -Henry George, Protection or Free Trade
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Of course the idea of onshoring industries using robotics defeats the ostensible purpose of onshoring industries to bring back manufacturing jobs
"We maintain a tariff for the avowed purpose of keeping out the products of cheap foreign labor; yet machines are daily invented that produce goods cheaper than the cheapest foreign labor...the only consistent protectionism ...would forbid the introduction of laborsaving machinery"
-Henry George
-Henry George
April 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Of course the idea of onshoring industries using robotics defeats the ostensible purpose of onshoring industries to bring back manufacturing jobs