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DESCRIPTION:You don't even have to attend--just read the text below--but if you want to 
 paddle to Alcatraz the day before the Sunrise Ceremony, and want to join a 
 vegetarian splendrous meal in the afternoon during which The Commons SF 
 presents the most resounding take-down of Project 2025 and serves up the 
 take-down's complementary through-plan for regaining the continent for all, 
 give us a holler!\n\nThe gist of the take-down:\n\nThe economic heart of 
 Project 2025 is the argument that a free market economy unencumbered by 
 government interference is the best way to preserve the American Way. In 
 response to this The Commons SF argues that there is no free market for 
 labor and capital until land/location values are treated as a commonwealth. 
 Maintaining private property right in the economic value of the planet is 
 the greatest of all governmental acts of interference, we assert. The text 
 below was previously posted on the Hillsdale College online curriculum 
 website in response to a lecture presenting the 2025-aligned explanation of 
 business recessions.\n\nWe propose that the business cycle is actually 
 largely a result of government interference in the shape of preserving 
 private gain from increases in location/land values. Investment in location 
 (by location we mean only the physical earth not created by human beings as 
 that physical earth is spatially related to the rest of the economy, 
 including other locations) . . . investment in location produces nothing 
 new, but it often does lead to further investment in that land in 
 anticipation that labor and capital investment will seek that location and 
 further raise location value by capital and labor’s competition for that 
 location. Should the rise in location values exceed the rise in return for 
 the application of labor and capital to location, capital and labor will 
 retard activity at the one location and go looking for other less 
 speculatively high priced locations. But the supply of land doesn’t 
 change, and if the title holders to speculatively high priced land withhold 
 location from actual market pricing, then the search by labor and capital 
 for less expensive land will drive up the speculative price of land 
 elsewhere. Again, this phenomenon is due to the difference between land on 
 one side and capital together with labor on the other side. Land cannot be 
 produced. An upward price for location with labor and capital production 
 remaining roughly the same will result in capital and labor surrendering 
 more of their earned income to the owners of location. This is an 
 explanation of the business cycle that the lecture takes no notice of. And 
 it is a curious absence of notice, isn’t it, since it involves the most 
 enormous species of government intervention that there can be, namely the 
 preservation of the right by some to claim the Earth as theirs against the 
 rest of humanity’s right to life, which is nothing less than the right to 
 use this planet on an equal economic basis as anyone else. By any historic 
 measure, the privatization of the economic value of the material universe 
 is a perversion of social relations. It is nothing less than the divine 
 right of kings. It is what is meant by “the nobility.” It is utterly 
 contrary to the deep down ethos voiced in the Declaration of Independence 
 that all people are created equal and have a right to life possible only 
 through access to the material universe, which practically speaking is 
 planet Earth.\n\nSo much for disdaining government interference in the life 
 and liberty of all humanity, Hillsdale!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/11/24/18870997.php
SUMMARY:Thanksgiving America: how to take back the planet & pop Project 2025
LOCATION:Alcatraz by kayak, then Bernal Heights for disquisition 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/11/24/18870997.php
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