We do have alternatives: –

1.  We can continue with economies whereby the 0.01% rips off its citizenry by ‘financialising’ them into impossible levels of debt, using escalating land prices and the taxing of their sales and earnings.

2.  Or, we could adopt Georgism, which does none of these whilst also distributing a universal citizens’ dividend.

Perhaps we don’t know of the second option?

[Australians used to know. We had land ‘taxes’–actually rents–at all three levels of government during most of the Progressive Era (1897 to 1920) – before succumbing to having our earnings taxed.]