Haor Chall
The Power of the Dark Side
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- Haor Chall
I was thinking about this last night at work (well, there wasn't much else to do) and I had this idea. Essentially, to me it looks like a post-count based economy isn't going to work so I thought of an alternate way of doing things. Hopefully this will make sense...
Anyway, the idea was that everyone would get paid a "wage" (everyone being the RA's and stuff not foreign ambassadors or anyone else). The wage would be fairly minimal for RA's and then there would be increased salaries for NPA/DC members, Ministers, etc. Now the only problem with this (presuming it is workable) is the valuble time of our admins- whether Hers/Flem or a new 'banker' admin- but if wages were added say once a month, with around 50 RA's (I think...), that shouldn't be too bad to do perhaps?
There would then be services that people could spend their money on (like the forum ads) which would go into the government/bank/forum (I'm kinda using the three interchangably in this) and would then go towards paying everyones wages next month. The idea being that if we can break even on wages against money coming into the government then you can have a fixed amount of money in the system (although the amount of money to start with would be several times larger than the initial wages cost- enough to run without any gov. income for perhaps 4-5 months- because I imagine even if this does get off the ground we'd certainly start with a government deficit for a while). I'm not sure what other things the government/bank can do to actually raise money though- the MoAE could run a lottery with x amount to enter and half the money raised going as prize money and half to the government, or whatever.
The second way to raise money would be taxes. In many ways an income tax would be pointless but it would allow the government to reduce the amount to be spent on wages and therefore balance the books at some point in the future. The main thing however would be that if people want to set up a business (flag makers for example, or whatever) they would have to register their company with the bank and then pay VAT (or something similar) on every transaction. The Bank could offer loans (charging interest) as well although at the moment I'm not sure what anyone would want a loan for. Savings accounts are more difficult and I'm not sure they'd work at this stage.
So, does this sound feasible?
Anyway, the idea was that everyone would get paid a "wage" (everyone being the RA's and stuff not foreign ambassadors or anyone else). The wage would be fairly minimal for RA's and then there would be increased salaries for NPA/DC members, Ministers, etc. Now the only problem with this (presuming it is workable) is the valuble time of our admins- whether Hers/Flem or a new 'banker' admin- but if wages were added say once a month, with around 50 RA's (I think...), that shouldn't be too bad to do perhaps?
There would then be services that people could spend their money on (like the forum ads) which would go into the government/bank/forum (I'm kinda using the three interchangably in this) and would then go towards paying everyones wages next month. The idea being that if we can break even on wages against money coming into the government then you can have a fixed amount of money in the system (although the amount of money to start with would be several times larger than the initial wages cost- enough to run without any gov. income for perhaps 4-5 months- because I imagine even if this does get off the ground we'd certainly start with a government deficit for a while). I'm not sure what other things the government/bank can do to actually raise money though- the MoAE could run a lottery with x amount to enter and half the money raised going as prize money and half to the government, or whatever.
The second way to raise money would be taxes. In many ways an income tax would be pointless but it would allow the government to reduce the amount to be spent on wages and therefore balance the books at some point in the future. The main thing however would be that if people want to set up a business (flag makers for example, or whatever) they would have to register their company with the bank and then pay VAT (or something similar) on every transaction. The Bank could offer loans (charging interest) as well although at the moment I'm not sure what anyone would want a loan for. Savings accounts are more difficult and I'm not sure they'd work at this stage.
So, does this sound feasible?
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I thought for a second that someone was interested in this issue.
