David Harvey and the City - An Antipode Foundation film 

Housing units are depreciating assets, assets that require considerable ongoing expenditure of funds for maintenance. Then, every decade or so even more must be spent to replace systems. There is, therefore, an argument to untax housing (except, perhaps, mansions that are less homes than exhibitions of conspicuous consumption). What increases over time is the value of the land under a housing unit, and this increase in value is unearned to the individual. It occurs because of aggregate demand and the quality of public goods and services brought to the location. This value rightfully belongs to the community and should be collected via taxation. Do so and land prices will fall to levels that allow decent housing to be constructed affordable to almost all households.

This work is fundamental as a safeguard for Capitalism; without researchers such as Dr. Harvey and Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, there would be no understanding of the 'who, what, when, where, why, who told you that, put that in writing, and how' that undermines civil society. I hope more people seek truth and thereby overcome the deception and lies of the antichrists that aim to destroy civil society (1 John 2 ch.)

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@@theoperator9178 gottem

Captial is money seeking more money. The money I earned to pay for the food I and my family need is not capital. It is money. The Money I spent to educate myself was capital, but I myself am not capital. Money spent to defend our boarders is not capital, but money spent to expand them is.

spoonikle you contradict yourself. Try again.

Capital and people are not the same thing. The etymological definition you're giving of "capital" comes from counting heads of cattle, not people. So in a pastoral community, wealth would be accumulated in the form of cattle (which incidentally, would be a more material and generative receptacle for wealth than "money"). The capital that harvey is talking about is capital as a social relation of power and difference, that constantly needs to be fed, in order to maintain its relation of domination (I recommend you also watch the first film in this Antipode series on this channel that features Dr Ruth Wilson Gilmore).

Zahra Khalid I can think of no better analogy than you did to prove my point. Do you have faith or do you believe in religion?

What are you on about, man?