Henry George's central argument was that everyone in the industrializing world could see technological progress (trains, electricity, telephone, medical technology) alongside crushing urban poverty, and George's explanation was that land concentration allowed landowners to mop up all the gains of these technologies and all economic surplus.
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Michael BirdEvidence Quote
“Henry George's idea is essentially within the title of the book, which is that everyone in the United States and everywhere in the in the industrializing world at the time could see they live in an era of technological change”
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