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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition

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Ithillid said:
There is also a disconnect between the voters and the politicians. Look at it something like the late 20th century and early 21st century Republican Party, where the voters and politicians were looking for different things. The voters are mostly in it for getting their quality of life back, and they will vote for most options that will get them that quality of life. The politicians want someone who can hand them in particular fat stacks of cash.
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So basically if we start providing those luxuries then the moderates will start voting elsewhere as their needs are met?

[X] Broad Support
[X] Strongly Pro Worker
[X] Intensive Enforcement

Treat the people at the bottom well and your business will thrive.
 
Going moderate can be an ehhh... since I mean it is better technocratically that more people can enjoy the riches of the economy and be able to ensure an equal and equitable society by keeping gaps in income low. It is also the first days of the new private sector so going in with better protections and more money would mean less chances of chaebols/zaibatsus.
 
[X] Broad Support
[X] Moderately Pro Worker
[X] Moderate Enforcement

I think we have to do broad support to insure we don't accidentally create monopolies. And I want to cut the market some slack to start out. Offset by workers organizations hopefully. However, if shenanigans intensify? We should drop the regulatory hammer on fools.
 
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A Guilty Scapegoat (Canon)
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    • Ithillid said:
    The Trial of Redmond Boyle

    After nearly a year of discussion and the rituals of a just trial, Redmond Boyle has been convicted of a laundry list of crimes, ranging from the relatively innocuous corruption and fiscal malfeasance, to multiple counts of gross incompetence and one of attempted crimes against humanity. The current Director General of GDI, having been called to testify, described Boyle's orders across the Third Tiberium War as being "A civilian attempting to assume operational command" and the strike at Temple Prime "An operation that was more political theater than military sense."
    The now retired Melissa Wu, former assistant treasurer, testifying about his activities as secretary of the treasury, revealed that he was not only a goldbug, placing outsized importance on a gold reserve that had primarily been a dumping ground for excess gold produced by Tiberium refining operations, but had also been influential in assigning contracts to his friends and business partners, granting a handful of major companies undue and nearly unfettered access to GDI's funds and funding. While none of these are precisely new accusations, Wu is the most highly placed accuser, and has been instrumental in making the case for corruption.
    GDI does not typically use the death penalty, reserving it soly for those too highly placed to be left alive. Generally, it represents an acknowledgement that what the person knows is too important, too dangerous, to be left out into the general population, and as such is almost always used against the very highest ranking members of the Initiative's civil and military commands. Boyle, despite being a coward in life, went to his death well, choosing a firing squad, and facing it with courage.
    As a case, this one is notably unusual. Instead of calling the accusations a NOD plant, or having been a case of Brotherhood misinformation. While far from a foolproof method for avoiding punishment, the Brotherhood does tend to muddy the waters enough for some of the otherwise guilty to sow enough doubt to escape punishment. However, in this case, while NOD is involved, it seems to be a clear cut case of picking their person to survive the Philadelphia attack, rather than a matter of misplaced guilt.
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    A Golden ScapeGoat
    Tomorrow, GDI will shoot a guilty man, and yet it will be a miscarriage of justice

    Propelled into leadership after the tragic destruction of the Philadelphia, Redmond Boyle was an unknown figure when he took the reins of GDI. Unbeknownst to him, he would be the lynchpin in a plan by Nod Mastermind Kane, setting in motion a chain of events that would see the Earth invaded by alien force, bringing GDI to the brink of extinction. Even now, their so called Treshold towers over Southern Italy, impervious to any of GDI's attempts to bring it down, or even understand it. The third Tiberium war, in which Boyle played a vital role, claimed nearly a hundred million lives directly and indirectly. Even now, the damage to blue and yellow zone infrastructure is still being repaired, with the earliest hope for recovery still decades in the future.

    It is true that Boyle's involvement was essential for the development of this war. That without his desire to target the Temple Prime with an orbit ion bombardment, the Scrin would not have arrived. The Boyle administration was languished with corruption, meddling and the persistence desire of placing political appearances over military reality. But none of this amounts to a crime that justifies the penalty that is now being applied. Corruption and gross incompetence are crimes which carry only fines and minor prison sentences, and the Temple Strike has been a scenario for which GDI military command has long since advocated. The names of those who know criticize Boyle for his rash actions can be found on a number of papers and memoranda, all advocating for a more extensive use of orbital bombardement. And let us not forget that when Boyle ordered the Temple Prime strike, he was aiming to ape the end of the First Tiberium War, when GDI obliterated Nod Temples in Cairo and Sarajevo. Indeed, this first experience, where GDI lost countless soldiers against dug-in Black Hand troopers, formed the basis for many documents advocating further strikes. Thus, while it is undoubtely true that it was not Boyle's position to authorize the strike, it is hardly an unjustified decision.

    Boyle then was a man trust into responsibilities beyond his abilities, in a system which had been gutted by Nod attacks. Dereft of adequate knowledge, and burned by his own corruption and vices, he made a number of questionabele decisisions, but none of these were as questionable or controversial as GDI would like to make it seem.

    Even Boyle's most questionable decision, the construction and authorization to fire of a massive Liquid Tiberium bomb, makes sense once viewed in the larger perspective of the invasion. While it is easy to say now that Victory was assured and possible by conventional means, at the time when Boyle made his decision, this was far from certain. Scrin forces on Earth where increasing by the hour, and GDI commands across the world where failing. In the time it took for GDI forces to fight their way towards the Relay Node, a million people had been killed or maimed. Worse, this slow, grinding methodological advance made GDI's plan painfully clear. It is only through luck that the Scrin appeared either unable or unwilling to deploy additional relay nodes. Had they done so, Earth would surely have fallen.

    The high command of GDI knew this. This is why they permitted Boyle to build and arm his warhead. The man alone, though he had the political power, had neither the know how nor connections to organize a military effort of this scale. GDI aided and abetted the construction of the bomb whose very existence they now denounce every step of the way. If it had been used, they would have emerged from the shadows, ready to heap themselves in glory. But now they hide, content to let Boyle take the bullet.

    In this way, Boyle, with his obvious corruption and obsession with gold, makes for a perfect scapegost. With blame firmly pinned on one man, many others have seen their sins quitely covered up. What about the failure of the satelitte defenses, which allowed the Philadelphia to be so easily destroyed? That has not been resolved. Instead, GDI's defenses still rely on a single groundside facility. What about the failures of military intelligence, that allowed Nod to build multiple bases and deploy entire armies right inside even the most secure of blue zones. What about the Rocky mountains Complex, where Nod once again succeeded in suprising GDI military planners.What about the status of the Red and yellow zones, where decades of neglect have made GDI less popular than the green crystal that is literally eating the world.

    GDI's flaws are legion. It's desire to pursue the highest charge for one man does not reflect justice, but is instead a show to placate a rightfully unhappy populace.
     
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    • DXCS said:
    anything that is strongly pro worker or stongly pro owner will tilt the system too much to one side and not work, moderate is the way to go.
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    The problem here is that the Overton window is skewed.

    [ ] Strongly Pro Worker
    A substantial array of pro worker legal and policy choices, ranging from closed shops to preferring cooperatives or other collective ownership schemes, GDI can manage to head off the worst of potential capitalistic excess. This is also likely to ramp up consumption as the workers have more means to negotiate their pay.

    [ ] Moderately Pro Worker
    The service sector has often been a place where workers are exploited, usually worked against each other in a rat race to push productivity numbers up. By instituting strongly pro worker regulations, including the right to unionize, GDI can at least help in most of these cases.
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    Consider what these two options say

    1) It is strongly pro-worker legislation to allow closed shops to exist. So, on every below that GDI restricts employees from making a formal agreement with their employer that protects all employees. Every level below that, the right of the employer to undermine the union by hiring non-union workers is guaranteed. The strongest pro-worker legislation is GDI not implementing legislation that protects employers.

    2) In moderate pro worker legislation, the right to unionize is considered a "strong pro worker regulation". That's quite severe, because it implies that on every level below that, the worker does not have the right to unionize.

    Essentially, our options thus are

    1) Worker organization is lightly restricted
    2) Worker organization is heavily restricted
    3) Worker organization is extremely restricted
    4) Worker organization is totally restricted.

    Every option on the table is pro-employer. We just get to chose in how strongly the government restricts the workers (because even in the most strong pro-worker legislation, there is no mention of any legal restrictions placed on employers).

    Actual strong pro-worker legislation would be stuff like requiring unions to exist, requiring workers to be on boards and managements, capping CEO wages and compensation vs worker wages, requiring wages to automatically be increased to account for inflation, stuff like that.

    [X] Broad Support
    [X] Strongly Pro Worker
    [X] Intensive Enforcement
     
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    [X] Broad Support
    [X] Strongly Pro Worker
    [X] Intensive Enforcement

    Lets Get the Workers owned gravy train running
     
    Note I am against Strongly Pro Worker because I have personally had issues with teachers that could not be replaced due to teachers unions, so I do not support systems to force people to join unions. I have an hand writing issue that required me to see an occupational therapist but one teach at me school stated if they had difficulty reading my work they would mark it wrong (when all other teachers were willing give me extra time or review parts they could not read orally), all the school administration could do was tell me to not take her classes. I was also not the only student that had issues with this teacher.
     
    Absoloot said:
    No doubt. I'd still argue it'd be more likely he'd be tapped to lead the Tiberium Abatement efforts inside the department, but the Treasury covers far more than just that.
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    I imagine that someone like Granger would have been picked to only head the tiberium abatement program, specifically, before Tib War Three and the looming no-longer-contained tiberium apocalypse.

    But at a base rate of zero tiberium mitigation, with us losing... sounds like an average of half a percent of global surface area per quarter, I think... we'd have been on track to lose all remaining Blue Zones on the planet in less than a decade, with the Red Zones expanding to sweep up what remains and turn it into green glowing rock by 2075 or so.

    That's the kind of situation that causes you to put the tiberium-busting specialist in charge of all of the everything.

    Redciv3 said:
    Note I am against Strongly Pro Worker because I have personally had issues with teachers that could not be replaced due to teachers unions, so I do not support systems to force people to join unions. I have an hand writing issue that required me to see an occupational therapist but one teach at me school stated if they had difficulty reading my work they would mark it wrong (when all other teachers were willing give me extra time or review parts they could not read orally), all the school administration could do was tell me to not take her classes. I was also not the only student that had issues with this teacher.
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    I sympathize, but from my own experience, a systemic inability to fire any teacher, ever is usually as much a function of indifference on the part of administration as it is on the part of the teacher's union.

    Because the majority of the teachers don't actually want some psychotic horsefucker making them look bad. It's not that hard for the school district to negotiate a contract with the union that permits teachers to be fired for cause, or that permits administration to order individual teachers "yo, Ms. Smith, stop being a Nazi, okay?"
     
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    Simon_Jester said:
    But at a base rate of zero tiberium mitigation, with us losing... sounds like an average of half a percent of global surface area per quarter, I think... we'd have been on track to lose all remaining Blue Zones on the planet in less than a decade, with the Red Zones expanding to sweep up what remains and turn it into green glowing rock by 2075 or so.
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    From what I remember by the intro of the bad mod that was C&C 4 there were no more Blue Zones, one or two of said former Blue Zones had become Red Zones and the rest were part of the rapidly shrinking Yellow Zones. Humanity was set to choke to death as they were originally meant to until the TCN was deployed and allowed for the Red Zones to be rolled back wholesale into Yellow Zones or wastelands by the point of the game.

    Mid-late 2060s by the original timeline. By 2077 everyone was expected to have died off.
     
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    In quest response to the earlier omake:
    In the comments section:
    kryptoadept:
    I do agree with your general sentiment that the system has failed overall. However, in regards to some of the points made here.
    10ebbor10 said:
    Instead, GDI's defenses still rely on a single groundside facility.
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    I'm not in the system if you will but I have heard rumors that there are plans to fix this issue. I don't have much more information than that(which means OPSEC is good so far thankfuly).
    10ebbor10 said:
    What about the failures of military intelligence, that allowed Nod to build multiple right inside even the most secure of blue zones.
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    This is a legitamate point. We really need better ways of tracing and handling infiltrators.
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    What about the Rocky mountains Complex, where Nod once again succeeded in suprising GDI military planners.
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    And how would one specifically notice that possibility and successfully argue to fully reinforce that? And more importantly deal with the below concern at the same time?
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    What about the status of the Red and yellow zones, where decades of neglect have made GDI less popular than the green crystal that is literally eating the world.
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    Uh
    Have you seen what the GDI Treasury has done on this front?
    They literally took us from a shit situation to one where we are slowly reclaiming the yellow zones and are starting to prepare for red zone reclamation from what I can see.

    In regards to the issue of there being systematic rot from inside and there being a lack of experience on the top, those are legitimate issues.
    However, I have good reason to believe that Granger (let's be honest, it's the treasurer that has the majority of the power here) is aware of this issue and has likely taken steps to deal with it somehow. Hopefully this will help fix or at least mitigate the problems that we have in the system.
     
    [X] Broad Support
    [X] Strongly Pro Worker
    [X] Moderate Enforcement

    Not sure if Intense Enforcement is a good use of resources currently. Kind of on the fence. If the laws strongly favor workers, they should be able to help themselves, and require less intervention right? I'd be more willing to go Intense if we didn't already have so many fires to put out.
     
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