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This would truly split the property atom, unleashing tremendous democratic and economic energy. It would separate land values from productive use, ensuring the public a fair share of the former, as Georgists have long advocated, and as traditional land ownership has always failed to do. And there would be no financial losers in the establishing urban wealth funds to pursue this agenda: incumbent homeowners’ interests would be unaffected but for a likely rise in valuation due to the presence of a powerful new buyer in the city.
How to Harness Cities’ Hidden Public Wealth | NOEMA
noemamag.com
The above process is how the mind is designed to function so that we can have the experience of separateness; it is the ego that allows the experience of a walk in the park, the taste of fine chocolate, or a telephone conversation with a friend. Where things get messy is when the ego forgets that its function is to organize the self and begins to believe itself to be the boss.
The Yamas & Niyamas
Deborah Adele
In 2015, recommendation engines had already begun to connect people interested in just about any conspiracy theory — anti-vaccine interests, chemtrails, flat earth — to each other, creating a sort of inadvertent conspiracy correlation matrix that cross-pollinated members of distinct alternate universes.
How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks of Birds | NOEMA
Renée DiResta
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