Thanksgiving America: how to take back the planet & pop Project 2025

You don't even have to attend--just read the text below--but if you want to paddle to Alcatraz the day before the Sunrise Ceremony, and want to join a vegetarian splendrous meal in the afternoon during which The Commons SF presents the most resounding take-down of Project 2025 and serves up the take-down's complementary through-plan for regaining the continent for all, give us a holler!

The gist of the take-down:

The economic heart of Project 2025 is the argument that a free market economy unencumbered by government interference is the best way to preserve the American Way. In response to this The Commons SF argues that there is no free market for labor and capital until land/location values are treated as a commonwealth. Maintaining private property right in the economic value of the planet is the greatest of all governmental acts of interference, we assert. The text below was previously posted on the Hillsdale College online curriculum website in response to a lecture presenting the 2025-aligned explanation of business recessions.

We propose that the business cycle is actually largely a result of government interference in the shape of preserving private gain from increases in location/land values. Investment in location (by location we mean only the physical earth not created by human beings as that physical earth is spatially related to the rest of the economy, including other locations) . . . investment in location produces nothing new, but it often does lead to further investment in that land in anticipation that labor and capital investment will seek that location and further raise location value by capital and labor’s competition for that location. Should the rise in location values exceed the rise in return for the application of labor and capital to location, capital and labor will retard activity at the one location and go looking for other less speculatively high priced locations. But the supply of land doesn’t change, and if the title holders to speculatively high priced land withhold location from actual market pricing, then the search by labor and capital for less expensive land will drive up the speculative price of land elsewhere. Again, this phenomenon is due to the difference between land on one side and capital together with labor on the other side. Land cannot be produced. An upward price for location with labor and capital production remaining roughly the same will result in capital and labor surrendering more of their earned income to the owners of location. This is an explanation of the business cycle that the lecture takes no notice of. And it is a curious absence of notice, isn’t it, since it involves the most enormous species of government intervention that there can be, namely the preservation of the right by some to claim the Earth as theirs against the rest of humanity’s right to life, which is nothing less than the right to use this planet on an equal economic basis as anyone else. By any historic measure, the privatization of the economic value of the material universe is a perversion of social relations. It is nothing less than the divine right of kings. It is what is meant by “the nobility.” It is utterly contrary to the deep down ethos voiced in the Declaration of Independence that all people are created equal and have a right to life possible only through access to the material universe, which practically speaking is planet Earth.

So much for disdaining government interference in the life and liberty of all humanity, Hillsdale!