Just a quick correction, this isn't written by Day. As noted in the forward, it is by JW Mason:
J. W. Mason is Associate Professor of economics at John Jay College, CUNY and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
alicirce
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While obviously capitalism sucks for art, it's not clear to me that a LToV-based system would allow you to make the type of art you want to make without consideration of what the people who use the art will value.
This is not quite the same since it is not about freedom of movement but instead about economic control, but is an interesting comparison: the US charges its citizens income tax even when they are not resident in the US, and it is the only country that does this, IIRC.
If you leave the US and immigrate elsewhere, the only way to stop paying for the US's militaristic imperialism is to renounce your citizenship.
Maybe you find this essay has some useful ways to think about it: https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/
It quotes from mainstream media sources to support the charge that the communist party keeps their reins on the billionaires in a way that just doesn't happen in capitalist countries, with an eye towards long term goals.
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