You're still projecting your shadow. Try to bring it out into the open for observation by yourself. It presents a significant opportunity for personal transformation.
Imagine this: If everyone were given a million dollars, say as a Universal Income, the average price of Real Estate would soon rise to a million dollars times the number of houses on the street. Nay, probably a little more in expectation of future rises. There's no escaping this outcome, in this universe. You can wail and bleat and bitch about it like a spoilt child. You can plead to the intellect in ways that you hope will help you to escape from it. Nevertheless, it will happen. It has been 'written'.
So be it
I had a good Easter. It told me about the meaning of the grace of God.
There's no need to abandon language. There is every need to observe what is happening in front of your face because that is all that you know for sure is happening and that is perfectly enough.
The mother of all rents is in real estate, or the land value component not included the building and improvements.
There are some rents in capital formation too, the unearned component or monopoly profit. That is, the part of a companies profit which has not be earned, which is always the part of the profit which comes from ownership of that monopoly. e.g. cornering a market, intellectual property(not including copyright). Anything which gives that company an advantage against the competition which was never earned.
But this is all moot - the rent found and sought in a business is tiny, compared to the rent seeking in real estate. It has EVERYTHING to do with property in land. Its not use saying it has nothing to do with it just because you don't like it bringing your ideology under proper scrutiny.
The rent seeking which goes on in real estate makes up about 85% of every economy. About 5% is the rent seeking which goes on within business activity.
What is more, rent seeking is a great thing. The common stock of rental income for every economy is the primary measure of how well that economy is performing - if it is rising year on year, the economy is doing well. If falling, not so.
Any financial advisor who is not telling you to be a rent seeker should be fired immediately. And any other advisors who are telling you to invest in anything other than real estate also should be fired.
Why? Because all other forms of income are EARNED, meaning they are taxed heavily and cost huge amounts to keep up. Whereas land value and the rent which flows from it all the way down to the small amounts available to a business is tax free, in the end. Is always bailed out first by government of all party's, rising in value by 10% annually on average over the long term without needing to apply any more inputs of labour and capital. Rent is UNEARNED, you did nothing as an individual to create the additional value. ITs better even than Bitcoin. Bitcoin would have no value if there were no rent in it. Bitcoin not being capital(a commodity) must be a form of economic land. The return to which must be an economic rent.
"Bitcoin would have no value if there were no rent in it." Ahh no! Bitcoin has massive untapped value that has nothing to do with rent and everything to do with timestamped verifiable proofs.
It's all, or mostly economic rent. Been here a thousand times. But let's go here again shall we: prove me wrong using your own mind, not using academic sources(they are the key problem of misunderstanding, entrenched interests). At each stage try your hardest to suspend any ideological worldview or belief system. I like Dr. Wright but so far he has not been able to go that deep. Be autonomous, not an obedient instrument of authority. Please go ahead?
Ah you're nearly there - economic rent prevents supply from meeting demand and clearing prices to be reached. Speculation outuns that easily at that scale. Because people gamble on expected future rises.
But this is all technical chit chat. Are you able to enter into a dialogue where your beliefs have been suspended and cannot command your thought while you observe a thing?
Otherwise it doesn't matter what is true or false technically.
Wait am I supposed to take the test first or do my own research? I'm confused as to why don't you make your own Substack & post about the topics instead of leaning on someone else's for engagement. ... wait I think I just answer my own question does that mean I did my own research? Or what's the correct answer you need to tell me which research is the correct research to do according to your poorly constructed Texas Sharpshooter & cascading incredulities. Might one rent your opines? Oh, you went on-&-on so no further need. Good day.
You must DYOR. Else you will respond with a strawman if what I tell you runs coubter to what your Master demands you do for him. Think of it as a matter of your own personal development instead of projecting yourself into me.
I write clearly about it on Blogger. As I ducated in the links above. Have you done the honourable thing and looked before projecting?
Your behaviour exemplifies what I've seen repeated over and over in the BSV community, effectively ruining it. Stop now and you'll do it now more harm.
DYOR. Here is a hint but only read it if you promise not to respond with a strawman or try to beg the question as you done so far. Act with honour.
I posted this already, in your projection, it passed you by. Act with honour and you will start to make way. Stop trying to get a piece of your Master and he will stop having power over you. Be autonomous not an obedient instrument of authority.
Sounds more like you're hoping someone will pass themselves into you voluntarily—selecting word choice, ironically, would suit you to study.
Maybe do some research over picking different fallacies to bolster your overwrought tautology built on (not in, yeesh) same flawed bias & tropes over & again ... all whilst feigning the highroad of the steelman argument. Trot along
Please DYOR. Dr. Wright has butchered the meaning of the term rent above. Unpack that first. Go back to basics. Start building from the root. And it emerge for you. Allow me to give you a hint: study Leviticus 25:23 and what that means symbolically and materially and combine both meanings and you will understand the meaning of the term economic rent.
Leviticus has nothing to do with the technical meaning of economic rent. Economic rent is a term from economics, not biblical exegesis. It has a settled academic usage and is derived from the literature, not from symbolic readings of scripture.
One cannot simply seize a defined term from economics, detach it from its scholarly lineage, and then replace it with a private interpretation. That is not analysis. It is equivocation.
In economics, rent refers to returns above the minimum required to bring a factor or resource into use. The later concept of rent-seeking builds on that literature and was developed in modern public choice and economics scholarship by writers such as Tullock, Krueger, and others. So if the discussion is about economic rent, the place to begin is with the academic sources, the formal definitions, and the history of the term in economics.
Invoking Leviticus 25:23 does not clarify economic rent. It merely introduces a separate religious and moral framework that is not the source of the term and does not govern its technical meaning in economics.
I never said it did have anything to do with it. So you've set up a straw man and shot it down without trying to understand my meeting. First, a classic case of ideology combining one's thought.
What that verse tells you is something far more important than that. Why don't you give it a try too first suspending your political world views And then looking at what is in front of your face for what is really there.
You're still projecting your shadow. Try to bring it out into the open for observation by yourself. It presents a significant opportunity for personal transformation.
You too. DYOR.
If you allow someone else to tell you how things are, you are automatically enslaving yourself to them.
The only way you can know about anything important is to Do Your Own Research.
I tell myself this daily. Telling you is useless. Because you must decide and not listen to me.
If you listen to Dr. Wright and believe him, he will now be your master. Likewise for me.
Imagine this: If everyone were given a million dollars, say as a Universal Income, the average price of Real Estate would soon rise to a million dollars times the number of houses on the street. Nay, probably a little more in expectation of future rises. There's no escaping this outcome, in this universe. You can wail and bleat and bitch about it like a spoilt child. You can plead to the intellect in ways that you hope will help you to escape from it. Nevertheless, it will happen. It has been 'written'.
So be it
I had a good Easter. It told me about the meaning of the grace of God.
There's no need to abandon language. There is every need to observe what is happening in front of your face because that is all that you know for sure is happening and that is perfectly enough.
Rent is Rent.
The mother of all rents is in real estate, or the land value component not included the building and improvements.
There are some rents in capital formation too, the unearned component or monopoly profit. That is, the part of a companies profit which has not be earned, which is always the part of the profit which comes from ownership of that monopoly. e.g. cornering a market, intellectual property(not including copyright). Anything which gives that company an advantage against the competition which was never earned.
But this is all moot - the rent found and sought in a business is tiny, compared to the rent seeking in real estate. It has EVERYTHING to do with property in land. Its not use saying it has nothing to do with it just because you don't like it bringing your ideology under proper scrutiny.
The rent seeking which goes on in real estate makes up about 85% of every economy. About 5% is the rent seeking which goes on within business activity.
What is more, rent seeking is a great thing. The common stock of rental income for every economy is the primary measure of how well that economy is performing - if it is rising year on year, the economy is doing well. If falling, not so.
Any financial advisor who is not telling you to be a rent seeker should be fired immediately. And any other advisors who are telling you to invest in anything other than real estate also should be fired.
Why? Because all other forms of income are EARNED, meaning they are taxed heavily and cost huge amounts to keep up. Whereas land value and the rent which flows from it all the way down to the small amounts available to a business is tax free, in the end. Is always bailed out first by government of all party's, rising in value by 10% annually on average over the long term without needing to apply any more inputs of labour and capital. Rent is UNEARNED, you did nothing as an individual to create the additional value. ITs better even than Bitcoin. Bitcoin would have no value if there were no rent in it. Bitcoin not being capital(a commodity) must be a form of economic land. The return to which must be an economic rent.
"Bitcoin would have no value if there were no rent in it." Ahh no! Bitcoin has massive untapped value that has nothing to do with rent and everything to do with timestamped verifiable proofs.
true
Are your hero's leading your thought, unconsciously? Or are you doing their gatekeeping of them?
There is rent 'embedded' in everything. To deny it is like maxis saying my home rpi node is validating. Law of nature.
It's all, or mostly economic rent. Been here a thousand times. But let's go here again shall we: prove me wrong using your own mind, not using academic sources(they are the key problem of misunderstanding, entrenched interests). At each stage try your hardest to suspend any ideological worldview or belief system. I like Dr. Wright but so far he has not been able to go that deep. Be autonomous, not an obedient instrument of authority. Please go ahead?
You discovered supply and demand.
Ah you're nearly there - economic rent prevents supply from meeting demand and clearing prices to be reached. Speculation outuns that easily at that scale. Because people gamble on expected future rises.
But this is all technical chit chat. Are you able to enter into a dialogue where your beliefs have been suspended and cannot command your thought while you observe a thing?
Otherwise it doesn't matter what is true or false technically.
The Orwell Test - can you pass it?
https://www.northstokelife.com/2026/01/the-orwell-test.html
Wait am I supposed to take the test first or do my own research? I'm confused as to why don't you make your own Substack & post about the topics instead of leaning on someone else's for engagement. ... wait I think I just answer my own question does that mean I did my own research? Or what's the correct answer you need to tell me which research is the correct research to do according to your poorly constructed Texas Sharpshooter & cascading incredulities. Might one rent your opines? Oh, you went on-&-on so no further need. Good day.
You must DYOR. Else you will respond with a strawman if what I tell you runs coubter to what your Master demands you do for him. Think of it as a matter of your own personal development instead of projecting yourself into me.
I write clearly about it on Blogger. As I ducated in the links above. Have you done the honourable thing and looked before projecting?
Your behaviour exemplifies what I've seen repeated over and over in the BSV community, effectively ruining it. Stop now and you'll do it now more harm.
DYOR. Here is a hint but only read it if you promise not to respond with a strawman or try to beg the question as you done so far. Act with honour.
https://www.northstokelife.com/2025/10/if-your-earnings-are-taxed-highly-you.html
I posted this already, in your projection, it passed you by. Act with honour and you will start to make way. Stop trying to get a piece of your Master and he will stop having power over you. Be autonomous not an obedient instrument of authority.
Sounds more like you're hoping someone will pass themselves into you voluntarily—selecting word choice, ironically, would suit you to study.
Maybe do some research over picking different fallacies to bolster your overwrought tautology built on (not in, yeesh) same flawed bias & tropes over & again ... all whilst feigning the highroad of the steelman argument. Trot along
Can you please define what you mean by economic rent?
Please DYOR. Dr. Wright has butchered the meaning of the term rent above. Unpack that first. Go back to basics. Start building from the root. And it emerge for you. Allow me to give you a hint: study Leviticus 25:23 and what that means symbolically and materially and combine both meanings and you will understand the meaning of the term economic rent.
Leviticus has nothing to do with the technical meaning of economic rent. Economic rent is a term from economics, not biblical exegesis. It has a settled academic usage and is derived from the literature, not from symbolic readings of scripture.
One cannot simply seize a defined term from economics, detach it from its scholarly lineage, and then replace it with a private interpretation. That is not analysis. It is equivocation.
In economics, rent refers to returns above the minimum required to bring a factor or resource into use. The later concept of rent-seeking builds on that literature and was developed in modern public choice and economics scholarship by writers such as Tullock, Krueger, and others. So if the discussion is about economic rent, the place to begin is with the academic sources, the formal definitions, and the history of the term in economics.
Invoking Leviticus 25:23 does not clarify economic rent. It merely introduces a separate religious and moral framework that is not the source of the term and does not govern its technical meaning in economics.
I never said it did have anything to do with it. So you've set up a straw man and shot it down without trying to understand my meeting. First, a classic case of ideology combining one's thought.
What that verse tells you is something far more important than that. Why don't you give it a try too first suspending your political world views And then looking at what is in front of your face for what is really there.