"One big world" public policy: the walking tour

Come along on a free walking tour exploring San Francisco social movements history as a means of introducing the general public to SF's Big Idea.

In 1879, SF newspaperman cum social philosopher Henry George published his diagnosis of systemic oppression, Progress & Poverty. The text featured a remedy, namely abolishing the treatment of the Earth as a private income asset.

There is no reciprocity in obliging those who produce goods and services to trade a substantial portion of produced value to private interests for mere access to the Earth, George argued. Doing so amounted to existential extortion, he reasoned. So he advocated socializing the economic value of location as the starting place for enfranchising all people as equally Earthlings.

The psychic, economic, political, and social implications of this perspective are explored in this walking tour's narrative, honed over a quarter century of treading San Francisco's commonwealth real estate.