Land-Value Tax seems roughly right to me, but I feel like they could be generalized to graph-centrality taxes:

It's not that we don't have enough land, but the value of land is really dependent on how valuable the land around it is (in a fashion similar to the value of networks in Metcalfe's law[1]).

So establishing the value of land is a kind of coordination game, in which people try to eke out centers of valuable land.

[1]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe

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In a similar fashion, rare nodes central in a semantic network (such as domain names for very common words) have only value due to their connections to other nodes nearby.

Corollary: Land-value tax would make far less sense in a hyperbolic space: It's really easy to get from one point to another quickly.

Natural resources consumption taxes might still be worth it.

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