[Nomic] Money Money Money

Stuart Moore nomic-talk at srcf.ucam.org
Sat Sep 25 19:41:01 2004


John-Joseph Wilks wrote:

> 
>>
>> Summary:
>>
>> Proposal for the creation of the rule "Screw you, Anti Capitalists"
>> For:         Stuart, Carrie, Jonathan, JJ
>> Against:
>> No comment:  David, Martin Lester, Martin O'Leary
>> Reserving Judgement: Adam, Mike
>>
>> Proposal for the creation of the rule "A job? What's that then?"
>> For:         Stuart, Carrie, Jonathan
>> Against:
>> No comment:  David, Martin Lester, Martin O'Leary
>> Reserving Judgement: Adam, Mike, JJ
>>
>> Proposal for the creation of the rule "Bureaucrats (Inc)"
>> For:         Stuart, Jonathan
>> Against:     Carrie,
>> No comment:  David, Martin Lester, Martin O'Leary
>> Reserving Judgement: Adam, Mike, JJ
>>
>> To try to work round peoples issues, I am going to change the first 
>> proposal and introduce another proposal.
>>
>> Proposal for the creation of the rule "Screw you, Anti Capitalists"
>> ---
>> Each member of the list of voters will have an associated account with 
>> The "Bank of Anarchic Neurotic Kleptomaniacs" (The BANK). This account 
>> consists of a non-negative integer of Currency. All accounts begin 
>> with balance zero. Balances will be looked after by the Chief Cashier, 
>> who should publish a breakdown of balances and transaction history for 
>> each day. The post of Chief Cashier will be a Ministry post, should 
>> this phrase have any meaning in the game.
> 
> 
> Aye, but I still don't see the point in not allowing negative amounts 
> (i.e. players in debt). I would prefer to see the word 'non-negative' 
> removed from the rule.

I'd prefer some method of borrowing money from somewhere else - 
insisting on non-negative balances makes it easier to avoid loopholes 
where people can buy as much as they want of (whatever) and have a 
vastly negative balance.

Is your Aye to making me the Chief Cashier as well?

BTW - Technically this is a new proposal so Carrie and Jonathan ought to 
state whether they agree with this one.

Stuart