2023-01-09
1 小时 40 分钟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.