Champagne, Business Etiquette, and Politics
Day 384, 08:28
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by Jewitt
Hello eAmerica!
With war declared, the media has swelled with pro-eAmerican sayings and some have quoted past generals, war movies, and clichés. All this is directed towards France, our winning battle of Poitou-Charentes (which I phonetically pronounce as “Poy-twah Share-en-tway”), and the victory that is a sure-win. What we are not looking at is everything else. But first, let me glorify our troops.
The Slaughter of Poitou
First off, let the congratulations go to over 450 men and [one] wimminz which have fought at the Slaughter of Poitou. A brilliant display of merciless fighting that one should associate with eAmerican battles. May it also be said they had it coming. Why? Let’s just say they just deserved it [Switzerland? RL vendetta? Hogging all the champagne?].
The slaughter, and I use it as a positive term, did not come at a price. As of this writing we have 7 hours remaining to the minute in the battle, and already 44,800 points have been allotted in favor of the eUS. I believe it is safe to call this a victory. Is it safe to call it an end of eFrance? I would say so!
Out of the battle, some have become overly victorious. None is more surprising, yet patriotic, as our own President Dover becoming the hero of the fight (at the time of this article’s release) at 4,061 against the French. Compared to my lowly 160 achieved, he is a glorious elected official indeed.
So, my hat flies off to you, noble eAmericans, as we welcome the month of December [and the sure football games to come] and your throwing purchased weapons onto the fields of war and answering random trivia questions which pertain to DeGaulle and five year terms! When our next battles begin, don’t give up and stop adding to the pile of weapons; the more we the better our chance of a defeated enemy! Our determination is self-evident, we're still fighting although the battle is won. Sure, it's wasting money, but it's American tactics: Overkill and individual immediate gratification.
The Economy
My I express my deepest condolences to those that deserve it. No, not the French, but the eAmerican worker! As The Addict put very clearly: “Seriously?” The wages are insane, and today I am proposing that managers around the eUSA get together and agree to lower wages…all the way around. Wages are far too high in eUSA, especially for entry-level jobs. This has led, indirectly, to higher inflation rates in goods as well as a strain on the economy.
What more do I propose? Just drop your wages; you’re killing yourself and not helping the economy flow. We’re not progressing at all, and many businesses such as Axiom Accommodations are failing.
A good example is this:
A company that shall not be named [“Orestfay Iverray”] has two open positions of a skill level 3 being paid 11.03 USD. This is outrageous! Just look two levels higher and the offer for pay more than doubles at lvl 5 to 25.05 USD. Essentially, this unnamed company [Forest Gump River, minus the Gump] is paying over 5.00 USD a level at the higher levels. You can guess what lvl6 and 7 skill are being paid [respectively] if you can multiply your five’s. Just…insane. For once, I am glad unions do not exist in eRepublik: They would only make this much worse. It would also produce more whiners in our job market.
Congress
In Congress, we have had three withdrawals (two voluntary, one due to ban). The reasons for the resignations have been the violence, close-minded attitudes, and “uneducated” in Congress today. Personally, I have a solution to this issue and I wish it be heavily debated, tested, and put into action:
I would suggest we bring back how fighting was done in beta (1 vs 1) but make it to where politicians can fight. Call it something appropriate [Dual?] and have them deal it out. The winner has some sort of ego chest-beating, and then the vote can go on with little to no more dead-lock bickering between rivals.
Personally, I can find no problem with this suggestion [Burr vs. Hamilton, any History majors here?] and it only could help politics. I also suggest that key specific weapons be available, other than the basic pistol-image. I would suggest oak desks and carbon-fiber canes with polished brass handles.
If there comes a committee to discuss the issue, I would be glad to present a more formal and in-depth presentation on my suggestion and its cost-benefit ratio.
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To Do List:
*Go to Google.com and type in “French Military Victories” and click “I’m Feeling Lucky.” Share your results and discuss with your peers the accuracy of your findings.
*Vote this article up, 'cause one day you might feel glad you did. In the event that you may not remember that you voted this up, subscribe so you will remember.
-Jewitt [C-TN], Chief Editor
With war declared, the media has swelled with pro-eAmerican sayings and some have quoted past generals, war movies, and clichés. All this is directed towards France, our winning battle of Poitou-Charentes (which I phonetically pronounce as “Poy-twah Share-en-tway”), and the victory that is a sure-win. What we are not looking at is everything else. But first, let me glorify our troops.
The Slaughter of Poitou
First off, let the congratulations go to over 450 men and [one] wimminz which have fought at the Slaughter of Poitou. A brilliant display of merciless fighting that one should associate with eAmerican battles. May it also be said they had it coming. Why? Let’s just say they just deserved it [Switzerland? RL vendetta? Hogging all the champagne?].
The slaughter, and I use it as a positive term, did not come at a price. As of this writing we have 7 hours remaining to the minute in the battle, and already 44,800 points have been allotted in favor of the eUS. I believe it is safe to call this a victory. Is it safe to call it an end of eFrance? I would say so!
Out of the battle, some have become overly victorious. None is more surprising, yet patriotic, as our own President Dover becoming the hero of the fight (at the time of this article’s release) at 4,061 against the French. Compared to my lowly 160 achieved, he is a glorious elected official indeed.
So, my hat flies off to you, noble eAmericans, as we welcome the month of December [and the sure football games to come] and your throwing purchased weapons onto the fields of war and answering random trivia questions which pertain to DeGaulle and five year terms! When our next battles begin, don’t give up and stop adding to the pile of weapons; the more we the better our chance of a defeated enemy! Our determination is self-evident, we're still fighting although the battle is won. Sure, it's wasting money, but it's American tactics: Overkill and individual immediate gratification.
The Economy
My I express my deepest condolences to those that deserve it. No, not the French, but the eAmerican worker! As The Addict put very clearly: “Seriously?” The wages are insane, and today I am proposing that managers around the eUSA get together and agree to lower wages…all the way around. Wages are far too high in eUSA, especially for entry-level jobs. This has led, indirectly, to higher inflation rates in goods as well as a strain on the economy.
What more do I propose? Just drop your wages; you’re killing yourself and not helping the economy flow. We’re not progressing at all, and many businesses such as Axiom Accommodations are failing.
A good example is this:
A company that shall not be named [“Orestfay Iverray”] has two open positions of a skill level 3 being paid 11.03 USD. This is outrageous! Just look two levels higher and the offer for pay more than doubles at lvl 5 to 25.05 USD. Essentially, this unnamed company [Forest Gump River, minus the Gump] is paying over 5.00 USD a level at the higher levels. You can guess what lvl6 and 7 skill are being paid [respectively] if you can multiply your five’s. Just…insane. For once, I am glad unions do not exist in eRepublik: They would only make this much worse. It would also produce more whiners in our job market.
Congress
In Congress, we have had three withdrawals (two voluntary, one due to ban). The reasons for the resignations have been the violence, close-minded attitudes, and “uneducated” in Congress today. Personally, I have a solution to this issue and I wish it be heavily debated, tested, and put into action:
I would suggest we bring back how fighting was done in beta (1 vs 1) but make it to where politicians can fight. Call it something appropriate [Dual?] and have them deal it out. The winner has some sort of ego chest-beating, and then the vote can go on with little to no more dead-lock bickering between rivals.
Personally, I can find no problem with this suggestion [Burr vs. Hamilton, any History majors here?] and it only could help politics. I also suggest that key specific weapons be available, other than the basic pistol-image. I would suggest oak desks and carbon-fiber canes with polished brass handles.
If there comes a committee to discuss the issue, I would be glad to present a more formal and in-depth presentation on my suggestion and its cost-benefit ratio.
________________________________________ _____________________________________
To Do List:
*Go to Google.com and type in “French Military Victories” and click “I’m Feeling Lucky.” Share your results and discuss with your peers the accuracy of your findings.
*Vote this article up, 'cause one day you might feel glad you did. In the event that you may not remember that you voted this up, subscribe so you will remember.
-Jewitt [C-TN], Chief Editor
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I don't understand your position on high wages. Do you believe that GM's are killing themselves and they don't know it? If that is the case, isn't it beneficial to the economy to weed out such poor businessmen?
Lots of ink is spilled on this topic. If there is merit to the complaint, then someone ought to address why such poorly-managed business aren't failing. Is it that there are too few workers and too many companies?
The real irony here is that you complain about unions, but call for a "union of employers" in which they all agree to set lower wages.
Long live the free market!
Good piece.... Read this other article, it may open every ones eyes!
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/food-prices-the-minimum-wage-hike-706700/1
Good article, and I agree these wages are killing us. need to drop along with goods prices.
@Sevarian: If this were the real world we wouldn't be having this issue. In eRep you can get GOLD out of nowhere and create multis to get even more for free. I'm pretty sure there are a good number of companies doing this just to stay afloat and completely refuse to die out.
The high wages will take care of themselves in time. A company that always loses money will eventually run out.
Serverian Torturus: In case you did not catch the tone of the article, let me put it out there: [.:!SATIRE!:.]. In all seriousness, I am a complete believer in Laissez-faire economics, but in-game not so much. I am against the high wages in-game due to the fact that they are unnecessary. The employers are losing profit and unable to expand or grow, and if we have too many employers then why is our unemployment rate around 50%? Albeit, many are inactive or at war, so let's just assume unemployment is 25% (very over-estimation); we still have many companies that are paying "competitive" over-figured wages and still can't find any workers. Why is this? I didn't answer, but we need a fabricated manager's union [Or at least a one-time executive party] to keep wages low (but livable and not eTurkey-like) and make sure the workers aren't given the option for forming some sort of simulated union. That'd be the end of eRep's economic system. Are there too few employees? Let the few employees live with lesser salaries so the economy can burst up again.
-Jewitt [C-TN]
@NoneSuch--ok, that makes sense. First time I've seen someone make that argument.
Still, the Gold comes from levels (so everyone can get it), OR from paying RL money. I'd hope people doing the latter would just get sick of it after a while, but I guess you never know. But read on:
Someone was complaining earlier about Tea's undercutting US q1 food companies. Part of the reason they can is that they are offering lvl 2 jobs for 4 RON/day, which is about 4.5 USD/day. US employers are offering 7-8 USD/day. So even with a 45% import tax, they can give us a run for the money. Of course, Romanian grain is around .6 USD, ours is .8 USD. And naturally, Romanian grain-worker wages will be lower too.
Now, if people are indeed making Gold out of nowhere, why are high wages only a problem in the US and not in Romania? You have a good argument, but it doesn't explain why this problem is in the USA and not in Romania.
@Jewitt-- sorry, i didn't understand it was meant to be sarcastic!!
Since i'm new, i might be missing something, but here's a guess on why so high unemployment:
In RL, most people need jobs so they can continue to fulfill wants with purchaseable items. In eRep, there appear to be a limited number of things to buy. There is no niche creation or need or want creation. I.e., there is no way to create a new product that everyone believes they must have (PS2, sports car, etc.). Once you've got a good house, you don't need much more than a bit of cash for food. If you are fighting a lot and leveling up often, the bonus gold will take care of that, so you never need to work.
Take me, for example: I fought my first fight today. Why even bother buying food if I only lose max 4 wellness? I can train and fight two or three or four times (depending on my grasp of frog trivia), lose 1 wellness for training, 4 for not eating, and since I live in Florida, still end the day with close to 100 health.
Gosh, till I wrote that I didn't realize what a waste food was during wartime.
I'm only starting to see how wacked eRep econ is.
True dat
To answer my own question:
Unemployment is so high because the government:
1. provides huge health care benefits (Q5 hospital + war = why eat or gift?)
2. provides weapons for fighting (mine came from OKC-I assume $ comes from the gov't)
3. gives me moving tix to get to the aforementioned hospital, and even gives me a few gifts (once again, courtesy of OKC).
As long as we are at war, I don't really need to work.
So where is all the govt money coming from? the hard work of earlier generations? yikes, too much like RL
@ Severian: THe moey is coming from your tax dollars and the tax dollars of the common "two-clicker" (someone who just logs in, works, trains, and buys one food and logs out), which, despite what people think, is our greatest economic asset. Some fight a few times because they think it may be cool, but aside from that, they just do the game like that. Quite a bit of money comes flowing into the U.S. Treasury after a while.
-Jewitt [C-TN]