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: https://www.valuebase.co/. Talking with Lars completely changed how I think about who creates value in the world and who leaches 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?

𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒
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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
00:50:53 - Libertarian Georgism
00:55:16 - Crypto
00:56:50 - Transitioning to Georgism
01:02:30 - Lars's Startup & Land Assessment
01:14:46 - Big Tech
01:20:24 - Space
01:22:39 - Copyright
01:24:36 - Politics of Georgism
01:32:44 - Someone Is Always Collecting Rents