I'd love to contribute to the economic stabilization; however, being a
shiniless scrub, I cannot. I extend thanks to everyone who is involved
in this effort.
On 9/25/2017 10:41 PM, Aris Merchant 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
