ThrowawayPermanente

Rents will presumably rise accordingly, and then be captured in the form of a tax that is both very difficult to evade and no longer harms economic efficiency

Generally speaking landlords charge as much in rent as the market will bear. If they could get away with charging more they would already be doing so.

And now the robot is a revolutionary communist, great job guys.

Georgeism would not increase your overall tax burden, it would shift taxation away from things like income and sales tax and toward land value (excluding improvements like your home). Your overall tax burden would only increase if you occupy a larger then average share of the total land in existence (by value, not physical area), and for the large majority of people it would decrease appreciably.

Right, good catch!

It's from that episode where Q shows him what his life would have been like if he hadn't been stabbed through the heart in a bar fight.

LinkedInLunatics is leaking

Making it cheaper doesn't change people's taste, it's still mostly for the rich, now they're just getting a subsidy they didn't need from the taxpayer. If people want to spend their money on art that's perfectly fine, what I'm objecting to is the taxpayer being obligated to do so.

That a private enterprise wouldn't be able to make this work should give us a hint that it doesn't benefit enough people for it to be worthwhile, opera is a luxury good consumed by relatively few, relatively affluent people. Why should the taxpayer subsidize their hobby? Actors don't need a billion dollar opera house to perform, they could do it in a school auditorium if necessary. Those tax dollars could have been spent on any number of other things like healthcare and education.

He's already kind-of dead, what's the worst that could happen?

She's strong, but is anybody who loves coffee that much truly independent?

I just checked my comment history for the last 2 months and I'm not seeing anything like that. I also checked the modlog on Lemmy.World and this is all I can see. At this point I'm going to have to assume you're just gaslighting me.