I currently have 51 shinies. I give Agora 17 shinies. [I really have nothing better to do with them anyways, so I might as well help out.]
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 <thoughtsoflifeandlight17@ > 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 > >
