311 | Lars Doucet on Georgism: Land and Why Rent is too High & Wages too Low

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Lars Doucet, author of Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too High, Wages too Low, and What We Can do About It, joins The Realignment to argue that Georgism, the economic/political philosophy of Henry George, an often forgotten 19th-century thinker, is the best lens to analyze America's housing affordability and wage stagnation challenges.

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0:00.0	Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.
0:08.8	Everyone, happy Friday. Hope you had the chance to check out the conference I appeared
0:13.9	at yesterday. Freedom and progress put on by FreeUp. Quick reminder before we get in today's
0:19.4	episode, it's Friday so you can check out the podcast's substack. It will be going out.
0:24.2	You can find the link to the show notes. Secondly, this show is supported by a supercast. So if you'd
0:29.6	like to support our work, help us really finish strong with this 2022. You can go to realignment.supercast.com.
0:38.2	Lastly, as I mentioned during yesterday's announcement episode, we are doing a expanded Q&A episode
0:43.8	with everyone's questions and comments and thoughts after the 2022 midterms that will come out
0:48.7	this upcoming Wednesday. So definitely if you are a supercast subscriber, you know where to send those
0:54.0	questions on the supercast page. But if you are not a subscriber since we're opening this up,
0:58.6	you can just email us at realignmentpod at gmo.com or reply to the substack that's coming out
1:04.6	later today on to today's episodes. As I mentioned last Friday with my conversation with Jonathan B
1:10.9	about Renee Gerard's thought, I'm doing a couple episodes that are focused on philosophy and how
1:16.3	philosophical ideas and how political philosophy and different sorts of ideas can approach problems
1:22.4	we're having. So last week was about Renee Gerard. This week is with a previous realignment guest,
1:28.2	Laura's Tuesday. I appeared on his podcast at the start of September. It's called Narratives,
1:33.8	video host with Will Jarvis posted that in the feed. Go check it out. But today we're talking about
1:38.8	an idea or a philosophy called Georgism. Laura's has actually written a book called Land is a big deal
1:45.5	where it rents too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it. You know we spent a lot of
1:50.3	time focusing on land, housing prices, wages, employment, all those good issues and what he is
1:57.3	putting forth here is this idea that Georgism is actually a way of solving for or answering a bunch
2:03.0	of the questions we're going to have. So dive into this episode. It's a deeper dive. But like I said,
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