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"You will own nothing, and you will be happy" is mostly about preventing home ownership and controlling the biggest iron costs of living yourself.

Schwab wants cheap gimgaws but for corporations to rent out the 15-minute city housing stock, centrally-controlled electric instead of distributed gas, etc. He doesn't care if you own a TV or laptop or window A/C, so long as you can never reasonably own housing and are dependent on the Center.

Some other things that make "Fuck the County" tricks harder than in the past:

* Drones see down into your property and even the poorest rural counties use them regularly now, so setting up out of road view and putting up a gate and no tresspass signs no longer works.
* Smart Developer-Realtor-Homeloaner cartels made sure the county tied electric/sewer/water connection to building permits. No building permit for a full house, no utilities.
* Building size and time were greatly changed; what used to be "You must build within 4 years at least 800 sq ft or greater" became "1 year and at least 1200 sq ft"
* Agra and other zoning was increased to many dozens of acres; and/or replaced with "Horse Farm" zoning and "Deeded Communities", all of which not only ban RVs as well as both Mfg and Modular homes.

This being said, I am very POSITIVE about things going forward.

DeSantis has grabbed HOA Karen-Kens by the balls and squeezed hard, regulating fine-crazy Buttinskies, requiring abundant notice and 48-hour periods to put out an collect trash, banning Karen-Kens from not allowing work vehicles on the driveway - some Karen-Kens Kommisars were even fining Police and Power Company employees for parking their squad car and vans at their own house! This is because the Realtors(Tm) and Developers were demanding it in order to sell.

Florida inventory is now Pre-Pandemic but houses just ain't moving and a top reason is that people want to live without Karen-Ken breathing down their neck looking to give them a $200 fine because they didn't put out the trash no earlier than 5AM and no later than 7AM and back inside by 10AM when they weren't retired and actually had to go to work.

One reform I'd like to see is to put finishing restrictions on Deeded Community.

"Whelp, you have 80% vacant lots after two decades, so the County is hereby revoking Horse Pucky Run's Deeded Community and now those lots are regular residential now, with no mobile or manufactured restrictions or 2000+ sq ft restrictions other than specified in the County's regular R-1 or AR zoning. Too much demand and there's too many vacancies here to keep this Yuppieville snobbery in place. Suck a dick and have a great day!"

Another thing the Georgist Flat Tax would do is deincentivize Counties/Cities from taxing or restricting ADLs, RVs, Sheds, add-ons, etc. since only the land itself would be taxed.

AmericanKulak says

* Smart Developer-Realtor-Homeloaner cartels

In areas designated to be in the “Metro District” around Denver, like Castle Rock, homeowners have to pay extraordinary property taxes supposedly to pay for the infrastructure supporting these new developments. The property taxes are on par with New York’s, I shit you not. Homes in nearby areas outside this special district pay more reasonable property taxes. Did the developer unload these costs onto the homebuyer?