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Henry George

Rent-to-commons is core doctrine, generalized from land to AI-compute, data and network-effects, "the new land".

Edition read. Progress and Poverty (1879); the land-value tax tradition.

What we took

Rent from land and nature belongs to all: tax the unearned rent, not production. Axiacracy makes this a core pillar and generalises it from land to the new land, AI-compute, data, and network-effects, which the commons overwhelmingly created, with Smith's improvement-exclusion so that only the unimproved rent is captured and effort is never penalised.

The net position

Adopted and generalised, the land-value insight extended to the rent-bearing substrate of the AI economy.

Every position is read at the source. See the whole register on Lineage & Critique · The System.