 | In the late 1800's a self taught printer named Henry George wrote --"What has destroyed every previous civilization had been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. This same tendency, operating with increasing force, is observable in our civilization today, showing itself in every progressive community, with greater intensity the more progressive the community. Wages and interest tend constantly to fall, rent to rise, the rich become very much richer, the poor to become more helpless and hopeless, and the middle class to be swept away." (credit: "Progress and Poverty" (1877) pp. 8-10, 528) With these words George entered the social history of America and according to some, became one of the three most famous men in the United States alongside Mark Twain and Thomas Edison. His concepts for social reform became part of the underpinnings of the "Fairhope Single Tax Colony".
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