The downtown of my relatively wealthy Canadian city is surrounded by vacant parking lots & run down slums owned by real estate speculators. We are still living with the problems that Henry George wrote about.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-progress-a...

Somewhat off topic, but if you live in NYC you've probably noticed the "School of Practical Philosophy" advertisements in the subway. They always gave off cult vibes to me and I ignored them, but one day I finally decided to lookup what they're about. To my surprise, they started out as a Georgist reading group (!) that meandered into Gurdjieff and then Advaita Vedanta (via Maharishi's TM and his followers).

I really was not expecting to read Henry George's name when I opened that wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Philosophy_and_Econo...

The first rule of breaking the law is never break 2 laws at the same time.

If you’re going to “litter” plants onto someone else’s property, your reasoning for what plants to plant needs to be immaculate.

That doesn’t have to be a big complicated thing. Plant local wildflowers, from low weed content seed sources. Plant common imported plants like you find at the local nursery. Don’t pick random shit that’s invasive, or has poor nutrition that starves local insects. Don’t jump fences, think really hard about if you want to be taking things away like trash rather than relocating it on the property.

> If you own dead/brown/unoccupied land, you're an asshole.

Well said.

But yes, we should all be re-reading Progress and Poverty (1879), as our world shares many similarities.

Permaculture is about maximizing sustainable benefits from a piece of land at minimal cost and effort over the long term:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwdjtwsRtRE

Also Greening The Desert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhU7eTupnYk

> 7. ... Remember that squatting is legal.

Not in Michigan it isn't. It's a criminal offense, punishable by fines and jail time.

Ron Finley, who is mentioned in the article, sells shirts that say, “Plant some shit.” But I don’t like the art direction on the current design and am forever kicking myself for not buying one of the originals.

> If you own dead/brown/unoccupied land, you're an asshole.

Swap land with housing and you get something that has been going on for some time over here: homebuilders receiving government funding to make lots and lots of new homes then after they're finished letting them empty to keep homes prices high by reducing the offer compared to demand. This goes on for years, sometimes even forever until either they rot or become refuge for squatters.

There's plenty of available gardening space in unused yards. Ask your neighbors if you can garden their unused yard in exchange for them getting a cut of the produce or flowers.

"all the b̶i̶t̶c̶o̶i̶n̶ land"

"Bitcoin is Land" (2013) - 8 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494583

I suspect that anyone who advocates for what this page advises is either functioning from a sort of victimhood or resentment; or so privileged as to have never comprehended the likelihood of a consequence; or is so spiritually emancipated that their sense of morality and ethics has become subjected to whatever appeals to their desire to subvert an unjust authority, in spite of the fact that the outcome is that if they somehow achieve power themselves, they will soon become an unjust authority in their own right.

Georgism fans feels like people who discovered socialism via Wikipedia.

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hmm, one of those old fashioned web sites, nice to see they still exist.

I have always wanted to do something like this actually, hampered only by the fact that I suck at gardening.

Ok but private property is private property. This is just trying to normalize vandalism and criminality. “I don’t like it so I’ll do whatever I want and violate others.”