First, I'm distributing tomorrow (for clarity, between 12 and 24 hours
from now), and it would simplify my operations somewhat if you could
pend this before then.
Second, I'm concerned about the way you're handling organizations (and
thus contracts). It seems likely to disproportionately and unfairly
impact communal service organizations. I would suggest using the
principle of "effective control", which I invented for my Card Reform
and Expansion proposal. The idea is that if someone controls money, it
should be counted as theirs, but if they don't it shouldn't. In this
case it would mean that half of all money that an
organization/contract owns that a person controls is transferred to
Agora. The phrasing "effective control" is vague enough that judges
can work out the details in accordance with fairness and common sense.
For instance, if a person is the sole member of an organization and
can unilaterally amend it, e probably controls its money even if its
charter doesn't say so. I believe that this creates a system that is
fairer while maintaining adaptability. For the sake of full
disclosure, I'm likely to vote at least PRESENT anyway, mostly because
I disagree with fear as mechanism of encouraging spending (effective,
but not very friendly). I do commend you for the amount of thinking
that has obviously gone into this.
-Aris
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Gaelan Steele <gael...@icloud.com> wrote:
> I’ve learned my lesson about insta-pending. I create this proposal
> “Proletarian Rerevolution” with AI 1 by Gaelan and o: {{{
>
> Create a Power 1 rule titled “The Hot Potato” (or amend it, if it already
> exists) with the following text: {{
>
> For the purposes of this rule, the Wealth of a player may be calculated by
> taking their shiny balance, then, for each organization they are a member
> of, adding the shiny balance of that organization divided by that
> organization’s member count, rounded down.
>
> The player with the largest Wealth value is said to have the Hot Potato.
>
>
> Combustibility is defined as (x/500)*(y/30) where x is the difference
> between the lowest and highest player Wealth values, and y is the number of
> days in the past 30 days in which the current holder of the Hot Potato has
> held the Hot Potato at any point in the day. If Combustibility would be
> greater than 1 according to the above formula, it is instead defined as 1.
>
>
> The Pyromaniac is an office.
>
>
> Once per day, the Pyromaniac SHALL randomly select whether or not Combustion
> occurs, such that the probability of Combustion occurring is equal to the
> current Combustibility. If Combustion occurs, the Pyromaniac SHALL announce
> this publicly. The Pyromaniac NEED NOT announce that Combustion has not
> occurred. When Combustion occurs, half of the current Hot Potato holder’s
> shinies are evenly distributed among the remaining players, with players
> with lower wealth receiving more shinies if even division is not possible.
> Then, for each organization the Combusted player is a member of, a portion
> of the organization’s shiny balance, calculated via the formula 1/(2x) where
> x is the number of members, is evenly distributed among all players,
> breaking ties with players with lower wealth receiving more shinies if even
> division is not possible.
>
> If the rules define a concept known a as a Contract, any player may cause
> this rule to amend itself by announcement, replacing the word “organization”
> with “contract” and “member” with “party,” then removing this paragraph. If
> the current date is after November 2017, any player may cause this rule to
> amend itself by removing this paragraph.
>
> }}
> Make Gaelan the Pyromaniac.
>
> }}}
>
> Gaelan
