# meme week (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover meme week. Page: Feed: --- ## [Meme of the Week: There’s a Better Way to Tax Wealth Instead of Work](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/08/30/meme-of-the-week-theres-a-better-way-to-tax-wealth-instead-of-work/) _2026-08-30 · Jimbo · The Daily Renter_ Context: The reason why wealth taxes have problems at least from the perspective of Georgism is that they target all assets broadly. Georgists would consider actually produced assets like capital goods to be stored-up labor that should be rewarded just like the general labor we think of, so we see that a wealth tax is \[…\] ## [Meme of the Week: Workers and Businesses Have a Common, Greater Enemy](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/08/23/meme-of-the-week-workers-and-businesses-have-a-common-greater-enemy/) _2026-08-23 · Jimbo · The Daily Renter_ A lot of the issues labor and capital face actually stem from a deeper enemy than the other, one which hurts them both and causes them both problems. Henry George mentioned it in 1883 and it still remains quite true to this day. When I say finite resources, I mean a whole lot of things: \[…\] ## [Meme of the Week: Patents and Copyrights Have a Monopoly Problem](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/08/16/meme-of-the-week-patents-and-copyrights-have-a-monopoly-problem/) _2026-08-16 · Jimbo · The Daily Renter_ Patents and Copyrights occupy a weird in-between in that they act both as a reward for discovering an innovation and an exclusive, finite, monopoly privilege to control a particular innovation. Rewarding innovation is good since it means encouraging people to not just innovate, but to publicize them instead of keeping them as secret for something \[…\] ## [Meme of the Week: Governments Have It Backwards](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/08/11/meme-of-the-week-governments-have-it-backwards/) _2026-08-11 · Jimbo · The Daily Renter_ This post came a couple days late, sorry about that. Explanation: When I say other finite resources, I’m also including non-land natural resources as well as exclusive legal monopolies like patents and copyrights over a particular innovation, or the ability to control naturally monopolistic industries like utilities (check out this list for some more good \[…\] ## [Meme of the Week: Don’t forget, more homes starts with better land policy](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/08/03/dont-forget-more-homes-starts-with-better-land-policy/) _2026-08-03 · Jimbo · The Daily Renter_ Explanation as always: Before we can go about building housing, we first have to buy and use land. Unfortunately, due to issues like land speculation and overly-restrictive zoning, as well as taxing the work and investment that goes into building housing, our ability to buy and use our land is heavily constrained and so too \[…\] ## [Meme of the Week: Not the Response You Want to the Housing Crisis](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/07/26/meme-of-the-week-not-the-response-you-want-to-the-housing-crisis/) _2026-07-26 · Jimbo · The Daily Renter_ Context: As has been mentioned many times before, the best way to reform property taxes to make housing affordable is to universally exempt buildings and transform them into taxes on the value of land. Doing so removes the burden placed on making new buildings while keeping the onus on landowners not to hold the finite \[…\] ## [Meme of the Week: The Georgist Rabbit Hole](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/07/19/meme-of-the-week-the-georgist-rabbit-hole/) _2026-07-19 · Jimbo · The Daily Renter_ For anyone who wants to see, here are some good links to lists of what Georgists would like to target: Overall, there are a lot of finite (in other words non-reproducible) resources (both natural and artificial) which create economic rent that Georgists can either recoup or deal with in other ways. Land remains the biggest, \[…\] ## [Meme of the Week: Don’t Pull a California](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/07/08/meme-of-the-week-dont-pull-a-california/) _2026-07-08 · Jimbo · The Daily Renter_ Sorry for the hiatus, MOTW postings are making a comeback Explanation: Amid the ongoing property tax revolt, it’s important to remember that there is a good yolk of necessity in the property tax that should be followed rather than shied away from, that being the need to recompense land. Right now our property taxes include \[…\] ## [A New Digital “Georgist” Game Aims to Rewire How Players Think About Property and Wealth](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/06/23/a-new-digital-georgist-game-aims-to-rewire-how-players-think-about-property-and-wealth/) _2026-06-23 · Eric Reingardt · The Daily Renter_ A new online multiplayer game called Prosperity officially opened to the public on June 15, 2026, entering an already crowded digital gaming landscape with an unusually explicit ambition: to make economic philosophy playable. The browser-based title reframes property competition through the lens of Georgist economics, drawing direct inspiration from the early 20th-century board game The \[…\] ## [Green Revenue: How Henry George’s Ideas Can Help Protect Nature](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/06/08/green-revenue-how-henry-georges-ideas-can-help-protect-nature/) _2026-06-08 · Jimbo · The Daily Renter_ A common group of questions I’ve seen Georgists get asked on the internet relates to how Henry George’s ideas would impact the use of nature. Some question if a land value tax would encourage sprawl and the development of every parcel under the sun, others if it would entail the destruction of public parks. The \[…\] ## [Fast, secure international transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0rEokTseP3Kd) _2026-06-08 · **Sponsored**_ Bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile wallet — low fees and real-time tracking ## [Yes, a Land Value Tax Is Possible in Washington State](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/06/06/yes-a-land-value-tax-is-possible-in-washington-state/) _2026-06-06 · Eric Reingardt · The Daily Renter_ A new report modeling a property tax building exemption in Spokane rebalances incentives toward community goals, encouraging homebuilding and discouraging in-city vacant land speculation. ## [Reducing Inequality While Growing the Economy: Why We Must End Private Rents in Finite Assets](https://thedailyrenter.com/2026/05/25/reducing-inequality-while-growing-the-economy-why-we-must-end-private-rents-in-finite-assets/) _2026-05-25 · Jimbo · The Daily Renter_ Disclaimer: To avoid any confusion, the term rent in the title refers to economic rent, the returns to finite assets. It does not mean the contract rent gotten from leasing out any asset to another person. When it comes to the market economy, there exists a fundamental distinction between the goods and services, be it \[…\]