Quote Originally Posted by D sciple View Post
Forget gold standard imo...(I guess it's better than nothing though)

We need a land standard. There are 2,379,964,800 acres in the U.S. according my brief google-ing session. There are about 312 million people in the U.S. If we divided this up, it's about 7.6 acres for every man, woman, and child.

But, if we decided to divide the land up according to Numbers 33:54-

'You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give more inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

- Everyone isn't going to be living by themselves, on their own 7.6 acres. Another issue is that some of the land isn't farmable. (which is my basic idea, people growing their own food, no money really needed) But some land will have other value I suppose, like mineral deposits? Also a ton of people won't go along with it...so ....they gotta die (?).

Then there is the matter of the Canaanites, "when you go into the land I'm preparing, take them out (paraphrased)."

Homos, adulterers, atheists (just keep quiet and you'll be alright (?)) - all dead men walking. Now you can see that even more space is becoming available.

Divide the land + farming + executing = problems solved
That's what is supposed to happen under a true free market: capital is deployed to maximize utility [of land]. Just doling out the land per capita will create the temporary illusion of equality. The unporductive and lazy will ultimately sell their land to the productive and innovative. Capital tends to concentrate where it is best treated.