Compute and Poverty

A line from Henry George’s Progress and Poverty, VII.2

“Place one hundred men on an island from which there is no escape, and whether you make one of these men the absolute owner of the other ninety-nine, or the absolute owner of the soil of the island, will make no difference either to him or to them.”

Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879), VII.2 ¶4

George's thought experiment comparing land ownership with slavery.

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