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Organising our economies and societies to geoist principles has the potential to deliver environmental, economic and political sustainability.
Geoism is based on old principles that recognised that there is a fundamental difference between all that nature provides and the things we make and do ourselves; and that if we organise our economies, our societies to fully accommodate this, we can solve many of the big problems we face today as a species.
If you're already persuaded, come hang out and talk geoism. If you're intrigued and would like to explore this little-known approach to transitioning to a future that works for all, I - or someone else - will happily give an introduction.
In relation to land, here are three facts, two economic statements and one question:
• none of us made the land;
• we all need it on which to exist, to work and for our food;
• we all jointly contribute to its value on a continual ongoing basis;
• geoism recognises that the underlying cause of poverty, unemployment, low wages, increasing inequality of opportunity and many more societal ills is the unavailability or inefficient use of land - land being held out of use or out of optimal use;
• geoism also recognises that the most effective means of having land be made available, used more efficiently, used more optimally – with a vast reduction in that being held out of use – is that everyone pays ongoing rent whenever economic rent on land arises (where more than one person would like exclusive use of the same piece of land);
• If the two economic statements are correct, given the first three facts – that none of us made the land, that we all need it and that we all jointly contribute to its value – wouldn’t it make sense if we all paid such a rent?
That raises many questions, for instance:
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Who does such a rent get paid to?
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What would an obligation to pay such rent do to the asset value of land - or even to the concept of ownership?
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How could we transition to such a future without losing the advantages of the many successes of our species to date?
Coming up with answers to those questions is all part of the fun of figuring all of this out. Come explore with us.
