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Explain to me how SALSA doesn't immediately result in really wealthy people bidding up the value of all of the real property in an area simply to turn around and rent it to the people they force-bought it from.

Straight out of Libertopia.

Losing your house and being forced to move because of a mistake in assessed value or someone else's specualtive bid is as much of feature as losing all your money when you mistype a bitcoin address.

Tesla moving to Texas? It would take me about 3 days to syndicate enough money to displace half of downtown Austin.

Didn't money printing of 2019-2022 show that UBI will cause price inflation, lower velocity of money, and thus cause all prices to inflate across the board?

UBI sounds great, but once fully in play across a population - market forces cause base prices to increase to meet UBI for a near net zero benefit.

I love this idea! Came across it in Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner and Eric Glen Weyl

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177502/ra...