> On Sep 7, 2017, at 7:06 PM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > > >> On Sep 7, 2017, at 11:05 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: >>> It doesn't take 30 days due to a bug. >> [...] >>> I'd think about doing so as a protest; the difficulty towards casual >>> player economic participation has been pointed out and so far in >>> conversations, the designers of the system either aren't seeing the >>> great urgency to fix it, or think it's a feature. >> >> Actually, as I think of it, maybe some political hardball is in order >> here (there's not enough political wheeling-dealing that goes along >> here - among other things, this game is legislative simulation after >> all!) >> >> The registration bug is a form of economic protest, usable by the >> have-nots. So I state my intention: I will vote AGAINST any fix to >> the registration bug (which requires AI-3 to pass) until economic >> reforms for basic income are included/addressed. > > I am, at least, already well convinced of the necessity. I just haven’t made > the time to write a proposal about it. I do have a couple of loose ideas: > > * Allow any player to receive a payment from Agora at most once a week, > without objection, if and only if no player has fewer shinies than they do. > > * Allow the Secretary/Treasuror to cause Agora to pay anyone, with consent, > out of Agora’s coffers, with a SHOULD guideline to use that power to > compensate for income gaps, or at the expense of immediately triggering an > election for the office, or something.
* Redirect some proportion of each payment to Agora to the player with the fewest Shinies, with a mechanism for breaking ties (such as “in registration order”). -o
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