I will issue everyone who does this a trust token (all at once, with my charity report) and will try to think of a more substantial token of gratitude. Thank you.
-Aris On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:53 PM VJ Rada <vijar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have like 62 I think? I give Agora 20 shinies. > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Aris Merchant > <thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> > wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: > >>> * The reward for authoring or pending a successful proposal pended > with shinies is 1 sh. > >> > >> Ok, so as much as I understand the assessor's lateness, I suspect it > cost me > >> personally a fair purse of shinies. I'm at the point where I'm ready > to call the > >> entire wildly-adjusting and oscillating"system" frustrating guesswork > and > >> gambling to tune out of it entirely, voting to just keep AP and be > happy with > >> a couple actions a week. > > > > Economic reform goals: > > > > 1. Keep everything stable. I'd say we also need to keep things > > interesting, but frankly everyone could use a bit of boringness right > > now. This is impacting the workloads of several officers (meaning we > > have to do our work in bursts) and is ruining stability and financial > > planing. IMHO, this is is also the biggest flaw in at least two > > proposals, Shiny Weather and Hot Potato, which would both actually > > reduce stability in the markets. > > > > 2. Keep Agora solvent. Another major flaw in most financial proposals. > > At least half of any wealth from taxes should go to Agora. Yes, that's > > right, half. I know this is going to be unpopular, but wealth > > redistribution will not actually create a good financial system unless > > rule based rewards work. This is the upside of "print money" style > > proposals, which people vote against primarily because they're > > applying too much real world economics (not that people need to vote > > for them, see the next sentence, but I think they vote against for the > > wrong reasons). The disadvantage of that kind of proposal is that > > they're short term fixes that don't solve the underlying problem. I'm > > starting to think that a two tier tax might be best. A wealth > > redistribution tax would be placed on the rich, while a public tax > > would be levied on all but the poor. > > > > 3. Redistribute wealth. Yeah, this is third. No, that isn't a mistake. > > Every self-respecting economic reform proposal does this, but it's > > actually rather pointless without the other two. Until those happen, > > shines aren't a stable form of value. > > > > Temporary fix (mandatory charity): I have 48 shinies. I pay Agora 16 > > shines. All players, but especially o and P.S.S SHOULD give Agora 1/3 > > of their shinies, receiving nothing in exchange. I pledge to publish a > > list of who has and has not done so. I also pledge that if I judge the > > response of the community to be insufficient, I will submit and pend a > > proposal levying a tax upon all players. > > > > -Aris > > > > -- > From V.J. Rada >
