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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition

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

Come on guys, Capitalism hooooo! Plus for GDI it would be vastly more IC for it to be at most moderate pro worker


I am continuely surprised at how broad the power our guy has, though. This sounds more like a thing decided by multiple sections of government and not just the head of the treasury.
 
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[X] Broad Support
[X] Moderately Pro Worker
[X] Intensive Enforcement

I have a feeling that going all in on Pro-Worker is likely to either break or utterly stifle our economy. Don't get me wrong, the workers are likely to love it. But how many of those workers will there be if no one's wanting to be an employer rather than a worker? And in that case, how successful will having everything be a collective turn out?

I feel like it's a recipe for the economy to dissolve and maybe rebuild itself to somewhere near it's previous state but never asked good every few years.

That all said, an interesting question I thought up just now. @Ithillid Just what effect will future phases of Microgeneration grant have? We know the first one just ensures factories keep working through blackouts, but do future phases do things like reduce the power costs of new factories as they come with more internal power production?

Because that would be very helpful with how many we have to build...
 
Pyro Hawk said:
That all said, an interesting question I thought up just now. @Ithillid Just what effect will future phases of Microgeneration grant have? We know the first one just ensures factories keep working through blackouts, but do future phases do things like reduce the power costs of new factories as they come with more internal power production?
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Future phases of microgeneration will mainly harden your grid against attack. So if NOD destroys say one of your power plants, it will mean that your people's life support systems keep running, and the like. It will help some with your power plants, but at the same time, each of the nukeplants is pushing hundreds of megawatts minimum, while the microgeneration is pushing kilowatts.
 
Ghostdevil said:
I am continuely surprised at how broad the power our guy has, though. This sounds more like a thing decided by multiple sections of government and not just the head of the treasury.
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Well, when his department has more resources than the rest of the GDI combined, maybe that comes with some extra authority...


Pyro Hawk said:
I have a feeling that going all in on Pro-Worker is likely to either break or utterly stifle our economy. Don't get me wrong, the workers are likely to love it. But how many of those workers will there be if no one's wanting to be an employer rather than a worker? And in that case, how successful will having everything be a collective turn out?

I feel like it's a recipe for the economy to dissolve and maybe rebuild itself to somewhere near it's previous state but never asked good every few years.
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Agreed. While it's not a bad thing to support workers more than owner, going too far in any direction at such an early point feels like it could influence how all future economic policy would be decided. Because if the priority is skewed on workers, then how many left would still want to be owners?

Then again, maybe by fully supporting the workers above all else, privatization would in effect not be so 'private' anymore, and thus more control can be ensured by the government on the details of how even the smallest business has to be run.

Hmm... Now I'm tempted to vote for more Pro Workers to make the people more dependant on the government...
 
Eh, the strongly pro worker option is actually not particularly radical you know as someone pointed out in the last page? Our overtone window is fairly right where the Market is concerned and the idea that giving workers some rights will result in it not working is utterly bizzare. At most it's Nordic level of worker rights and likely less.
 
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marids said:
Agreed. While it's not a bad thing to support workers more than owner, going too far in any direction at such an early point feels like it could influence how all future economic policy would be decided. Because if the priority is skewed on workers, then how many left would still want to be owners?
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If being an individual capitalist is too hard there's nothing stopping workers from owning a business collectively.
 
"But what if nobody wants to be a capitalist anymore!" is exactly what the Broad Support from the Treasury is supposed to help with, a permanent 10R/turn grant program and license to use up a whole lot of spare food/logistics/power/whatever on your brand new startup is how people can get their new restaurant or whatever off the ground even if they don't have the personal capital or motivation to be a singular traditional capitalist business owner. It's basically a stealth grant package except targeted specifically at consumer services (I doubt we're privatizing education or healthcare etc.) rather than LCI or HI.
 
Crazycryodude said:
It's basically a stealth grant package except targeted specifically at consumer services (I doubt we're privatizing education or healthcare etc.) rather than LCI or HI.
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yeah basically. As for healthcare, you might see private option healthcare, and with education you might see education peripherals. (think things like Khan Academy)
 
If we don't make a government program for it? I'd assume you're about to see a ton of Preschool and child care businesses start up. In a lot of cases? This will probably just be formalizing what people have been doing already for barter.
 
[X] Limited Support
While providing for all of the elements the service sector is beyond GDI's current will, providing some smaller amount, and supporting them as needed will assist the creation of a spread of new companies, although with less support, the best positioned will be the first to reap the benefits of the program. (-5 RpT, Medium Indicator Costs) (Medium regulation impact)
[X] Moderately Pro Owner
By emphasizing the role of the owner, we can assist them in finding the right people for the job, and with the massive labor surplus, any churn in the labor market can be worked through with the existing welfare systems.
[X] Intensive Enforcement
With regular inspections, anonymous tip lines, and a well funded set of regulatory bodies, GDI can ensure that nearly any rule breaking is caught and punished appropriately.
 
Ghostdevil said:
Oh i thought we could multi vote? I saw several others doing it.
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We can - I think the point was that currently Strongly Pro Worker is the leading vote for that category, and Moderately Pro Worker is second, so voting for both is unlikely to have an effect on that race, unless we get a massive dark horse influx. If you don't care between the two, though, it's fine.

In unrelated topics, my plan for next turn's CarterQuest is to stick all 3 Bureaucracy dice into the "Prepare for the next Budget Plan" action. Otherwise known as the Gimme Money action. Because a well-funded SCED means that we get to probe the Solar System's everything. :ogles:
 
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