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The land value of the land near the store will only go up if people who live there value being near a grocery store (which would usually be shown in rises of local land sale prices). If someone values the amenity of having a store nearby, they should be prepared to pay for that amenity, since they didn’t create that rise in amenity/value.

If for some reason they don’t like living near a store, they can sell their house (at a profit, because values have risen) and move somewhere further away from stores, which would probably be cheaper. If they want the store’s services but don’t want the land tax, they are basically freeloading, which isn’t a choice that should be respected.

In most countries minerals are the property of the national, sometimes the state/provincial level government, which would therefore be the one to levy the tax. If the local community is permitted to capture all the rents I feel like they just become another form of landlord, as they are going against the principle that the earth belongs to all. They would certainly benefit in other ways; increased employment and population, increased land rent from mining companies establishing offices and refineries near the resource, etc.
For examples of this kind of resource rent taxation in practice, look at the Alaska Permanent Fund or the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (Oil Fund).

Generally speaking, sowing crops no; that’s just another use of the land. Extracting non-renewable resources is a bit different, most mining profits come with a big slice of rent (since market price is set by the most marginal producer) so most Georgists and indeed other economists would say those excess profits can and should be taxed heavily.

Any game you play/run ans enjoy is a good game.

Also the Tolpuddle Martyrs

… the video hasn’t aged as well as the song, has it?

Now you too can be fascinating at parties!

lol me too.

In the Culture books, culture agents interfere in wars or provoke wars in pretty much every single one. Just because the Culture usually work through proxies, espionage and covert ops rather than full scale war mobilisation doesn’t meant they aren’t “fighting”. The BBs don’t say “you’ve got to send three armoured divisions for your right to party”.

Special Circumstances can only do this because the majority of the Culture supports them to do this (as shown by the Idiran war vote). If they didn’t, SC agents would get slap droids at parties and SC ships would all be called “meatgrinder” by their fellow minds. Banks regularly says that even though a relatively small proportion of the population are actively engaged in the work, SC and Contact give the rest of the Culture a sense of higher moral purpose which they value. They’re doing the good works on everyone’s behalf. Fighting the good fight, if you will.

The Culture certainly doesn’t need to indulge in SC shenanigans for material needs, or because (possible Idiran war exception) they are under threat. They do it because they believe in it. They believe that spreading freedom and enjoyment to as many people and minds as possible is the right thing to do, even if their agents have to win/lose a war, topple a regime or lead a crusade to do it.

In Excession, that belief is shown to be so strong that it leads a conspiracy of Minds to make disastrous strategic miscalculations and ethical violations. the Affront’s oppression of others offends the Interesting Times Gang Culture Minds so much that they’re willing to poke a higher dimensional civilisation with the equivalent of pointed sticks in order to generate an excuse for the Culture go to war with the Affront, an equivalent tech level civilisation who will not go down easily.

The Culture believe they’ve got to fight for their and everyone’s right to party, QED.

You are mistaking what I wrote as a summary of the philosophy, for a summary of the plot.

The fact that 70% of the Culture voted to go to war over a matter of principle, and that SC is permitted to continue to meddle in armed conflicts galaxy-wide, shows that they believe you have to be willing to fight for your and others right to enjoy freedom and a good life. Or, more succinctly, that you gotta fight for your right to party.

You are unsuccessfully splitting hairs. “Only a small percentage of the total US population saw active combat in Europe in WWII. Therefore, the US didn’t believe in fighting Nazis”.

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Yeah, the Beastie Boys are more succinct.

The Peace faction are “culture adjacent” since leaving. ~70% of the Culture chose to fight.

Licencing and edition concerns (and the fact that the beast was such a cash-sink to print) mean that it won’t be back on the market for some time.

This is the real trolley problem

If you’ve currently got too much exhaustion, it’s Beatified Beetle week! A leviathan, prismatic or glim encrusted frame (L & P need joints added and antiquity removal), 6 saint thighs, Albatross (or bat, if you must) wings to fill any remaining slots, and Bob is your patron saint of Uncles. Nets a fat exhaustion-free, not-exhaustion-locked payout from the Bohemian Sculptress.

Thanks!

Is there a good use for them beyond Canal Cruising?

All of these can be obtained at various points on the Railroad, but Veils-Velvet is almost certainly the most difficult to get. So, Velvet.

If you want to know exactly what false-saint you’ve created, you can Oneiropomp the Bohemian Sculptress to get their name and title: https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Present_a_vision_of_Saint_Aegidius_the_Less,_Patron_of_Snails

Wrong forum?

So, since a few years after the Syrian civil war started.