You'd have to redo everything from scratch. Maybe your editor/director remembers what they want so its a bit faster this time round, if they are available, but its still a lot of work to rebuild the edit.

That assumes reaching 5 light years in say 50 years

However once it's done a few times, then it can't be stopped. If you're going at say 1/1000th of the speed of light (50 years to travel, 450 years to settle and build the next wave is 1% the speed of light) then your successor species will have colonised the galaxy in 100 million years, and we know that hasn't happened.

You then let it start, then cancel, right click, copy download link, then use wget on the machine you want the file on.

(Back in the days before tcp window scaling, I tended to use axel)

"Your passive income is enough to live"

There's three types of people

1) You rely on a paycheck to live

2) Your passive income is enough to live

3) You are so wealthy you can influence the world

Someone working for a 40k a year payslip, or even a 200k a year payslip, is likely in group 1. Someone with 5 million net worth is comfortably in group 2 - even at 3% in a savings account gives them an income way above people earning from labor. Both of those groups are so divorced from those whose wealth increases 5 million a year, or 5 million a month that they're basically the same.

At some point it ceases to be about money and being able to afford the things you want, and becomes power to control others.

It's also a major obstacle in the south east, especially for first time buyers

Rents will have increased to reflect this increase in desirability, but you just expect to make a profit from it.

It would be far better to replace with a %age tax whether you move or not, but wealthy people in the south east don't like the idea of taxes on unearned wealth.

Lets say two people are after the same house, both are willing to spend 500k on it.

Person A: Next time buyer, has a budget of 500k after legal/moving costs, that leaves 14200 for stamp duty, and that means you can pay 485,500 (plus 14,275 stamp = 499,775).

Person B is an FTB, they have the same 500k budget but can bid upto 490k due to lower stamp

As such person B can bid 486k, thus offering more than Person A, getting the property.

If both were Next Time Buyers the seller would get 500 less

If both were FTBs the seller would get 4500 more

If there was no stamp duty they would both be able to pay 500k, the seller would get 14k more

The land its on tends not to be a liability, it increases in value through no work on the owners side. Rarely it will decrease in immediate value, but that's very rare.

Likewise if I buy somewhere cheap in a backwater town, and the town becomes more desirable because there are better employment opportunities, better shops, better amenities, all of which serve to mean people will pay more for the land, then I benefit from that immediately.

Stamp duty in the UK, horrendous tax. It's better than nothing at offsetting the unearned increase in house (land) value, but far worse than a regular tax.

If you live somewhere for 10 years, then move, then repeat for 40 years, you pay far more than if you never move. This encourages people to live in less suitable houses for longer.

As to your worry about land values increasing -- the owner is deriving benefit. The higher the land value is, the more benefit the owner gets from the land.

That's not outlandish given the cost of distributed batteries.

Are you upping that model?

(If you build more generation -- for example have renewable peak generation of 80GW rather than 40GW, that reduces storage requirements drastically, as on a dull quiet winter week where you're only getting 10%, you'd be generating 8GWh in a given period of time, instead of 4GWh)