On 09/25/2017 11:55 PM, Aris Merchant wrote:
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
<mailto: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
<mailto:thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Kerim Aydin
<ke...@u.washington.edu <mailto: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
As the player with the lowest sh count, I'm abstaining from this if it's
alright.
