Adrian

“If we look deeply at life, we realise that the benefits we receive from society are largely attributable to their location. Benefits are local to the areas that we live in: the roads we drive on, the stores we shop at, and the services we use.”
― Martin Adams, Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World

“Due to its inherently limited supply for each location, land obtains its value from the natural, social, and cultural wealth that exists in its surrounding environment.”
― Martin Adams, Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World

“Land ownership is an entry monopoly: Land is naturally scarce for each location since its supply can't be increased... When people buy a piece of land, their ownership gives them the right to exclude the rest of society from the benefits afforded to them by their land, even though those benefits only arise from nature and from the presence of goods and services that have been provided by that same society in the first place. Buyers pay for exclusive access rights to land and pay only to the previous landowner instead of to all the people who are now excluded from the location privileges that this one particular piece of land provides.”
― Martin Adams, Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World

“Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an income from society”
― Martin Adams, Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World