To continue the account of Sunday’s Zoom meeting, I recall Walter Rybeck saying that being a Georgist today is like being an abolitionist in the early nineteenth century, opposing an injustice which most people take for granted.
His son Rick Rybeck mentioned the Strong Towns movement. A civil engineer named Charles Marohn had experience building infrastructure, and figured out that it had perverse results, partly because of the way it is financed.
Someone, I forget who, described how, when Walter Rybeck was knocking around South America as a journalist after World War Two, he went to spend a week in the Galápagos Islands, but the ferry did not return the next week, or the next, so he spent three months there, and got to know the few people who were scratching out their livings there.
Dan Sullivan said that the people who have problems matter. The people who have ideologies, like the Libertarians and the Greens, don’t. (He wasn’t necessarily calling them wrong.)
Alan Ridley talked about what the Lincoln Institute is doing.
Mike Curtis talked about having met Walter Rybeck around 1970. Someone said that, as Alanna mentioned, people are popping up whom we don’t know, but who have more or less Georgist ideas.
Walter Rybeck’s talents include playing the piano, and, many decades ago, he was an accompanist for Coretta Scott, later Coretta Scott King. He met Martin Luther King perhaps half a dozen times, and and is under the impression that MLK knew about Henry George. If I recall correctly, Rybeck gave him a copy of Progress and Poverty. King did express Georgist-influenced ideas on fighting poverty, but [my view here] doesn’t seem to have been consistently Georgist.
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