vue - Wendell Berry on Agriculture and Work
Writer and activist Wendell Berry speaking to the E.F. Schumacher Society on farming, proprietorship of scale, and work. For more information, please go to: http:www.distributistreview.com/mag http://www.distributist.org
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As the planet is our commons, necessary for every person to live, the challenge has been how to guarantee to all equal access to the commons, to the land. Moral philosophers has long debated this issue. The best and only practical solution is for societies to collect the potential annual rental value of land -- whether rural and agricultural, mineral laden, the seas and waterways, or urban sites -- and use this fund for whatever public goods and services members of a society agree upon. This was the remarkable vision of Henry George.
The type of wise use called for by Wendell Berry would result if the way our societies raise revenue was modified to that proposed by Henry George and many others. Our failure to socialize rent while socializing incomes earned by producing goods and providing services destines us to a diminished sense of community, to communities plagued by land hoarding and land speculation.
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