One-dimensionality is similarity (lack of differentiation along other dimensions).
Right now we have problems due to polarization, but that does not mean that all major parties being too similar is not also a problem. There are many reasonable political positions that nobody can vote for because neither major party endorses them, so in this respect we are still suffering from the parties being too similar.
I had actually already read the "we need 1.4M to not shut down", and still interpreted the breakpoint at 1M to mean "we need 1M to not shut down". I thought I was misremembering, or that some matching made the 1M turn into 1.4M. I would strongly encourage you to retcon the "first bar" to fill at 1.4M. I think the 1M break unnecessarily hurts your chances of hitting 1.4M, even if it improves your chances of hitting 2M
I'm not sure what you mean. You can list something at market price rather than how you actually value it, but that opens you up to significant risk from market volatility and malicious bids (from competitors looking to cripple your business, rich people you've offended, etc). If sales cannot actually be forced this seems more workable, but still exploitable by malicious actors.
Yes, I think we agree here.
Agreed, but the timing issues seem applicable to businesses' property as well. Sudden unpredictable spikes in value (e.g. of a mine for a rare metal that somebody figured out a new use for) could result in a lot of churn and removes the upside (but not downside!) variance in asset value.
It seems like it would be pretty hard to define a single reasonable delay period for land sales. An example case where a large delay would be justifiable is: a business manufactures cars, and has a single factory that makes some critical component. The value of their business is effectively zero if they can't manufacture that component. But it takes N years and D dollars to get zoning, environnemental, safety etc approvals for a new factory (and also to actually build it and get it running as smoothly as the last one, and hire competent staff, and lay off the old staff...). Having a variable "reasonable" delay and switching-cost compensation might work, but that sounds like a recipe for endless litigation.
On top of that, land can have network effects within a single owner--if a business builds 5 codependent factories and has to sell one of them, but cannot feasibly replace the one sold with something new nearby, each of the factories would have to be valued at the entire value of the network, multiplying your tax burden by the number of parcels your network is broken into.
I agree that the way we do land now is not good, but at first glance I don't see a way to fix this proposed system without a bunch of patches with their own problems.
Being required to sell at exactly the value you place on something seems unlikely to work out well in practice. As a toy example, carabiners are cheap, but if you're using one to hold your weight over a hundred foot drop, its value to you is approximately equal to the value of your life. Depending on any asset the sale of which can be forced is very risky, and assessing all critical components of a business at the entire value of the business seems incoherent.
I agree that these interventions have downsides, and are not sufficient to fully prevent ASI. Indeed, I spent quite a lot of the post detailing downsides to these approaches. I would appreciate advice on which parts were unclear.
Non sequitor. In a high dimensional space, things varying greatly along only one dimension and being exactly the same in all other dimensions are similar. This feels like an argument over definitions, but I disagree with the implication in this context that a single axis of differentiation is good enough for political parties.