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by NiceWayToDoIT 1424 days ago
> "just 1% of the population own half the land in England"

This is idea in same level as quantitative easing, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing) "Lets give rich people money so they recover economy" what happens "Rich people use that money £895 billion buy stocks, so they inflate market even more and not even penny trickles down to ordinary people, so they become even poorer.

Paying rich people that own land to sequester carbon is equally, (not sure which word to use) ... evil, diabolic as QE scam for the rich. Probability is high that they will use that money not to plant trees but to buy more land, even more increasing gap between wealthy and poor.

So, my question is when does wealthy people greed and naivety of poor ends?

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Imagine if you could print new land certificates for untouched land. Oh right we do that all the time and this leads to urban sprawl because we can't seem to get the existing land owners to cooperate.

Strangely enough the situation is the same with money.