Economy & Ecology

[T]hat poverty and all its concomitants show themselves in communities just as they develop into the conditions toward which material progress tends - proves that the social difficulties existing wherever a certain stage of progress has been reached, do not arise from local circumstances, but are, in some way or another, engendered by progress itself

Henry George, *Progress & Poverty*, 1879

[B]y George, if you treat land the same way you would a bar of pig iron, an hour of work, or a dollar bill, before you know it you’ll get poverty paradoxically advancing alongside progress, inexplicable bouts of industrial depression, literal genocides and holocausts (he’s dead serious about this), and The Rent Being Too Damn High. Mystery human

A body creates revenue if the body is the right kind of sick for the right length of time. … No one has an economic incentive to keep you healthy, to get you well, or for that matter to keep you alive.

Timothy Snyder, *Our Malady*