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Though these days I just manually clear the pollution cloud with a pocket full of turrets. The forward deployed engineer model, if you will.
It's just that now, it's gone from practically fantasy to hard sci-fi.
Most people are not willing to make the tradeoffs that entails but still want free access to the grid.
Georgism calls out land because the supply is essentially fixed, so there's no economic cost to taxing it. In addition the value of it collectively created.
Every industry you named above absolutely responds to price signals.
There are those the law protects but does not bind.
And then there's us.
I think we're deep into a post-law environment at this point, though. People who weren't bound by the law will not be protected by it either.
Owner-occupiers can and do refinance to turn their wealth into cash. It's routine.
They could always borrow against their massively appreciated property, after all.