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Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Why Not Focus on Land-Rend?

There's a whole analysis in that book about, you know, if people are still commuting like 20 minutes a day. So why not just build like flying cars instead of focusing on land-rend? Well, because these things have a cost, right? The cost of Frontier Expansion was murdering all the Indians and the cost of automobile expansion was climate change. You know, there has to be a price for that. Eventually the problem is the first generation will make out like gangbusters if we ever invent flying cars. And even better like Star Trek Matter teleporters,. Then you can really live in Nevada and have a job in New York.

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