Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-12 Thread Nick Vanderweit
The transfer tax would, as has been formerly stated, go into paying salaries to officers, and the tax rate would be variable to find a certain sweet spot where the money is moving around a lot and lots of trade is occurring. I'd say it'd go by percentage to people who did their reports on time and

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-12 Thread Zefram
Nick Vanderweit wrote: So should I just write up a proto-proposal for an ordinary linear numerical system of currency with the proposed ideas (transfer tax, etc)? We already have currencies. We don't need a new one, and they're easy to create if we do find a need for one. What you need to do is

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Nick Vanderweit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like people would just put all of their money in banks and try not to spend it so that it would grow, and, while in the real world banks serve to give loans for higher interest than they pay for a savings

DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Nick Vanderweit
Since I've been thinking a lot about proposals I could submit that might benefit Agora, I decided I'd throw an idea out there for you guys to give me feedback. My idea is an official currency, the Napier, abbreviated Np, which is the base-10 log of its worth. 2 Np is worth 10x as much as 1 Np

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/8 Nick Vanderweit [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since I've been thinking a lot about proposals I could submit that might benefit Agora, I decided I'd throw an idea out there for you guys to give me feedback. My idea is an official currency, the Napier, abbreviated Np, which is the base-10 log of

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Buddha Buck
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Nick Vanderweit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I've been thinking a lot about proposals I could submit that might benefit Agora, I decided I'd throw an idea out there for you guys to give me feedback. My idea is an official currency, the Napier, abbreviated Np,

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Ed Murphy
avpx wrote: My idea is an official currency, the Napier, abbreviated Np, which is the base-10 log of its worth. 2 Np is worth 10x as much as 1 Np which is worth 10x as much as 0 Np. One can transfer, for example, 1 Np to a person who has 2 Np, and, assuming no tax, the recipient will have

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Ivan Hope wrote: And once people advance as far as log(37) rather than 1.56820172, they'd like to go ahead and make it 37 Np. Speak for yourself.

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Nick Vanderweit
So should I just write up a proto-proposal for an ordinary linear numerical system of currency with the proposed ideas (transfer tax, etc)? avpx

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Nick Vanderweit
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Nick Vanderweit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well here's an idea. We could use a linear currency, with colors representing place values. For example, we could go ROYGBIV for the values of the

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A transfer tax would discourage people from transferring currency. Where would that tax go? It pays for public works and officer salaries, of course. -root

Re: DIS: Proposal idea

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A transfer tax would discourage people from transferring currency. Where would that tax go? It pays for public works and officer salaries, of course.