I'm very much in favour of distribution, and if we're just gonna go ahead and assume the existence of some form of centalised body (hopefully a very 'human-scale' i.e. small one) then LVT seems a reasonable means of accruing a public pool of money/ resources... after all, we are essentially 'borrowing' the land from others and our descendants. I am, however, less than confident about your techtopian ideals - technological progress decoupled from the underlying/ foundational economic-ecological realities (resource availability, externalities in terms of environmental degradation, social upheaval) may well catch up and collapse much of the 'progress' we've made with regards to technological development, scaling back to only those technologies which prove to be genuinely sustainable and also appropriate to the particular place and people employing such tech seems a more likely future... which may mean a certain level of 'regression', at least for much of the developed world. Personally, I think we'll be much happier for it - our psyche's and the Earth itself will be given opportunity to recover from too much 'civilisation', before species loss reaches a critical tipping point and threatens systemic collapse. (he says using blockchain tech)

Great article, very much look forward to reading you future posts! x