Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high

拉斯·杜塞特——进步、贫困、乔治主义以及为何房租实在太高

Dwarkesh Podcast

2023-01-09

1 小时 40 分钟
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One of my best episodes ever. Lars Doucet is the author of Land is a Big Deal, a book about Georgism which has been praised by Vitalik Buterin, Scott Alexander, and Noah Smith. Sam Altman is the lead investor in his new startup, ValueBase. Talking with Lars completely changed how I think about who creates value in the world and who leeches off it. We go deep into the weeds on Georgism: * Why do even the wealthiest places in the world have poverty and homelessness, and why do rents increase as fast as wages? * Why are land-owners able to extract the profits that rightly belong to labor and capital? * How would taxing the value of land alleviate speculation, NIMBYism, and income and sales taxes? Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here. Follow Lars on Twitter. Follow me on Twitter. Timestamps (00:00:00) - Intro (00:01:11) - Georgism (00:03:16) - Metaverse Housing Crises (00:07:10) - Tax Leisure? (00:13:53) - Speculation & Frontiers (00:24:33) - Social Value of Search  (00:33:13) - Will Georgism Destroy The Economy? (00:38:51) - The Economics of San Francisco (00:43:31) - Transfer from Landowners to Google? (00:46:47) - Asian Tigers and Land Reform (00:51:19) - Libertarian Georgism (00:55:42) - Crypto (00:57:16) - Transitioning to Georgism (01:02:56) - Lars's Startup & Land Assessment  (01:15:12) - Big Tech (01:20:50) - Space (01:23:05) - Copyright (01:25:02) - Politics of Georgism (01:33:10) - Someone Is Always Collecting Rents Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe
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  • over the last century, we've had this huge conflict,

  • all the oxygen's been sucked up by capitalism and socialism duking it out.

  • We have this assumption that you either have to be pro-worker or pro-business,

  • that you can't be both.

  • I have noticed a lot of crypto people get into Georgism,

  • not the least of which is Vitalik Buterin who endorsed my book.

  • If you earn $100,000 in San Francisco as a family of four, you are below the poverty line.

  • Let's start with just taxing the things nobody has made and that people are gatekeeping access to.

  • Let's tax essentially monopolies and rent seeking.

  • The income tax needs to do this full anal probe on everyone in the country and then audits the poor at a higher rate than the rich.

  • And it's just this horrible burden we have.

  • OK, today I have the pleasure of speaking with Lars Doucet,

  • who developed the highly acclaimed Defenders Quest game and Part 2 is coming out next year.

  • But now he's working on a new startup.

  • But the reason we're talking is that he wrote a review of Henry George's progress and poverty that won Scott Alexander's book review contest.

  • And now it has been turned into an expanded into this book.

  • Land is a big deal.

  • So, Lars, welcome to the podcast.

  • Great to be here, Dworkesh.

  • Okay, so let's just get into it.