Per random.org, I give Agora 13 shinies. ---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com
> On Sep 26, 2017, at 2:26 AM, Gaelan Steele <g...@canishe.com> wrote: > > I throw 23 shinies at Agora. > > Gaelan > >> On Sep 25, 2017, at 9:41 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
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