Top of the Food Chain
Day 1,090, 15:28
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by Joe DaSmoe
My fellow citizens of the eUS.
I've been debating on whether or not to write an article such as this for a long time. There is a path America has been on for far long. Its time for a different approach. I'm sure I will ostracized for my opinions, but hey I'm looking for a fresh start anyway. I intend to take my time here and try to help develop a better community for every citizen, not just those at "the top of the food chain."
http://www.erepublik.com/en/military/battlefield/2053
AND CUE THE PROGANDA
ARE YOU SERIOUS?
This battle is the tipping point for me. The article above me proves my point. I have been around for a long time and for the most part have conformed to the status quo. I have even personally received government funding to "tank" in battle on many many occasions, so many will say I shouldn't bitch, but this needs to said. Every since the sweeping changes of post WW3, America has served only as a machine to further the in game successes of those players who find their way into power positions. Whether it be through the government, military or social circles, the players who sit atop of these organizations dictate the way game play will be for every citizen.
The battle for Sumatra is one of many excellent examples of this. Our own President tanked up an unbelievable amount of damage in the battle, over 160k. Only to see the region that we spent so much government revenue on be resistance warred back to Indonesia the very next day, without even a fight. And for what? Those those who spend your money can thump their chest? Rank up? Write articles about "poppin cherries"???
Come On Man!!
The only benefit gained from this battle goes to those who run the whole spiel behind the scenes. They gain massive amounts of rank, xp points and medals, while the average guy gets the shaft.
Currently America's structure is set up so that the work of our employees funds the game progression of older, stronger, more established citizens. America continues to recycle through noobs, watchin them come and leave while the powerful reap all the gain. A new citizen finds eRep and either immediately leaves, dismisses the game. The new guy may find a spark of interest, sticks around for awhile. Very few of these players last. They either conform or are cast out.
The reason is the way our community is run. Unless you are at the top, you will never reap the benefits of America's oppressive tax rates and will suffer in your progressions to benefit the output of damage from elite players, simple as that.
YOU ARE A BATTERY, a fuel cell, a host for those who spend your government revenue.
Something has got to give. We cannot continue to tax our player base to death in order to wage battles that don't even matter. We cannot keep driving new players away. The conform or gtfo attitude that lies behind the scenes has to be beaten.
America needs to be giving out food and weapons to newer players DAILY. We need to focus on progressing our player base through the game. Either that or give them their damn money back and allow them at least a shot at doing it themselves.
Uphill battle? Hell yes? Winnable? Idk?
Join me and see what happens, thanks for your time and good luck in our little eWorld.
~Joe DaSmoe
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Arm America will be back soon. I don't agree with this.
Well then start yourself. Don't accept any funding from the military.
Interesting read.
I saw your shout Porter and I appreciate it. Arm America isn't enough though man. We either need to actually be the nanny state we tax like, or back off and let our citizens spend more of their own money bro.
Most of the money spent on Sumatra was personal funds. If you don't like the way the country is being run, then run for president on this platform.
Much like real life.. Voted and subbed
Great article!
Joe DaSmoe 4 POTUS!!
Joe DaSmoe 4 POTUS!!
Again Cold Hearted Snake. You are but a troll so who listens to you anyway?
Colin paid for his own gold, we provided some money for his weapons.
Joe DaSmoe 4 POTUS!!
Joe, Colin funds himself. That isn't Gov't money.
Ty CHS for including a Colombian that is living in Pakistan. That isn't part of the government in the slightest. Just because I have called you out when you are stupid doesn't mean I am receiving a lot of funds, it is because I understand that it is more efficent in the hands of strong players. What I encourage everyone to do is this:
A. Join the military and put yourself on the top of the chain
B. Run for election and try and change it, this is a democratic society and if you lose and/or are shot down it isn't because of the 'TERRIBLE ELITISTS', it is because you don't get to make decisions above everyone else
C. Move to another country that has lower taxes. Currently afaik the best wages are in Romania and Pakistan
Alexander that context of this article is not that simple.
Im sure Colin paid for his gold, he always does. This battle is only an example. What I speak of has been going on for years. YEARS.
@Armandez. Where in the article did I say Colin?
CHS, it seems to me that you are just someone who wants to discredit me for no good reason, you even ignore the response I made about myself. I have not once been in the military, nor have I ever had American citizenship. I have had British originally and then Colombian. I have not once received funding from America and have never been in a public office in America. Yet I am elitist?
1. Your logic is wrong:
By that logic Joe DaSmo isn't getting any gold from America because he is saying it is bad. Oh wait, he specifically mentions he is in the military and gets funding. That logic is wrong in one instance therefore cannot guarantee truth by it.
2. Your understanding is wrong:
Pakistan is not lead by SEES, it is lead by a coalition of Dioists and RL Paki's. Its first Dioist president was MMF2 who, while originally American, has admitted he prefers Phoenix to EDEN and has funded people to fight against America Croatia and the lot of EDEN.
3. Look at my donations list, a couple of Paki's when I was active in that country (I'm not anymore), and my orgs with which I buy cheaper goods.
You're wrong on 3 counts, try again.
Joe DaSmoe 4 POTUS!!
@CHS: I'm totally lost dude.
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We didn't need the first region, however if we take this next region we can attack Western Australia as well as many more Indonesian regions.
Woah, your comment just moved under mine. That's crazy.
And let me get this straight, you are saying that it is wrong for people to spend money on themselves if they themselves buy it?
@Professor Oak
If we didn't need Sumatra, then what was the point? I am not trying to be confrontational, I am genuinely curious.
I find it even more indefensible, with the taxes we pay that Colin wasn't supplied. I estimate that Sumatra alone cost him at least 900gold. All together, I estimate that Sumatra drained a minimum of 10,000 gold from the e-USA, public and private sources. We all got the thrill, the fun, the glory, but where is the plan? How was this part of an strategy, how does this kind of expenditure, public or private help e-USA?
We cannot have it both ways. The fact that our military did not immediately annex Sumatra or ransom it, or anything, except let it slip away today via RW is also indefensible. Clearly, there was NO plan.
How many people used their own gold, often purchased on college students budgets, pretty much everyone who fought! In the end just for a little revenge, bragging rights, 12 hours (at most) of trolling. This is wrong and does not help e-USA from an economic perspective, nor does it help us grow in terms of people.
I more agree with Joe than not, but perhaps for slightly different reasons. Could you imagine what it would be like all the gold spent on the hollow victories like e-Sumatra was used to build up e-USA. Even if taxes were not changed. Thank of how we could use that money to build public defenses and military training, upgrading mil. weaps companies. and building hospitals. And privately, people could invest on upgrading businesses, training, food.
Wars like Sumatra only hurt us. (looking around for my gold) If I had known we would just give it back via a RW, I never would have spent it. This great victory has made me feel like not only is admin gnawing at our purse strings but our own leaders think we should fund their follies too!
There, I've said how I feel, sorry to those who will feel insulted.
We used it as a platform to attack Java which allows us to attack Western Australia which is occupied by Indonesia. That is what I am assuming anyway, I'm, as I said before, not part of the government.
Professor Oak
Im not saying a funded military is a "bad thing" Its necessary, but we need shift focus to other areas of the game as well.
How?
I have seen you comment that you want to boost domestic interest like politics. Would you suggest that people have petty political fights that divide the nation for the amusement of young players? If so, I hope you can find some good actors that will help you out.
Or you could allow more noobs to join congress I suppose, which would result in an unexperienced congress. That would also require others to step down and the new citizens to get involved enough to ask. Most players play for such a short time that they do nothing; nothing can help those people.
Or you could fund younger players food, weapons ect. Except
1. That would take away from older more efficent players
2. That would require the younger players to get active enough to realize there are those things waiting
3. We already have that. OMB
Y is Professor Oak gettin so much attention? He's no even 3 months old.
"(We used it as a platform to attack Java which allows us to attack Western Australia which is occupied by Indonesia. That is what I am assuming anyway, I'm, as I said before, not part of the government.)"
Think we can afford to pull Java off? Alot of us blew our wad in Sumatra.
Let's start a FUCKING REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ CHS
. Yes, it says a lot. It shows that people don't always look out for themselves entirely because if people always look after eachother then Joe wouldn't have written this article, or it is political pandering and thus meaningless. He proves that not all people are egocentric which is what breaks your argument.
2. That doesn't even make sense. Pakistan and America aren't exactly friendly, if you look at the MPPs of Pakistan they are with Phoenix members, which shows that American tax money doesn't go there, which shows I didn't get it. The double dealing stuff is just false mudraking in an attempt to make it look bad, with no proof.
3. I'll give you that, however if you like look at my strength, professional skill, and influence. None of those are high enough to show I've been funded by America. I haven't even lived in a EDEN friendly country except for like 5 days in Romania because they have high wages. I'm a wage hunter.
@Ace- What does my age matter? If what I say makes sense and has no major faults shouldn't it be recognized? That is the equivalent of me asking why are you getting my attention, you have bad grammar. Neither of those things matter.
@Joe- I don't know tbh. I'm not part of the government of America, not even an American citizen. I'll admit that if we can't win these next battles it was a campaign that wasn't 'worth it', but we couldn't have known that it wouldn't work before we tried it.
Professor Oak Day 1,090, 17:36
>I haven't even lived in a EDEN friendly country except for like 5 days in Romania because they have high wages. I'm a wage hunter.
I imagine there are a ton of active American players like you who chase wages. Another point I'm trying to make
@Joe-
Colombian, not American. I was born British. I don't really have ties to any nations, no nations interest me particularly.
Regardless people wage chase.
Though I admit that a lot of Americans probably are wage chasers.
😣
I wrote my comment admitting that before I saw your comment. I hate not being told that someone else replied.
Professor Oak, I understand that perspective, and if it works, it might be dandy. However, wouldn't it have been far cheaper to just all pack up and go to e-AUS and and fight with our Aussie bros like we did in the spring? Or, and I'm just improvising, but we may not even need to do that if e-AUS started a good old RW and we were MPP'ed in, granted, they have a few open wars that would need to get resolved and some MPP that need to be restored. However, an investment, on the part of e-AUS (after all, it is e-AUS who benefits from getting her orig. territory back in the end), in some diplomacy and some housekeeping in terms of old open wars, could pave this path and not cost as much. However, if anyone actually reads this far, the nice things is that it costs the indos serbs and friends almost as much and they drained every scrape of resources they could from e-AUS.
@Professor Oak
That would be a cool feature 😃
also the vast majority of gold is stockpiled in government run companies and donated via the monetary market
You skipped an entire point. Why would Pakistan be funded by America? It has MPPs with Hungary Indonesia and I believe Brazil. And you presented no evidence of this conspiracy which is why I call it BS. It is as true as me saying that I am secretly funding you. For all everyone knows it is true, but there is no evidence to back it up.
Oh and Pakistan isn't allied with EDEN, it's allied with Phoenix.
Oh and Pakistan isn't allied with EDEN, it's allied with Phoenix.
Oh and Pakistan isn't allied with EDEN, it's allied with Phoenix.
Oh and Pakistan isn't allied with EDEN, it's allied with Phoenix.
Oh and Pakistan isn't allied with EDEN, it's allied with Phoenix.
Can you respond to one of those? Or will you conveniently forget it again...
I agree wholeheartedly with Joe on this.
Honestly, the only time my opinion of our government ever went up a notch was during Operation Monkey Business, which actually helped a lot of people instead of just the privileged few. But since that ended, things have just gone back to the way they were.
Well said Joe.
I agree with some of your points Joe.
After spending what I did last night, not to mention what I've spent over the last 8 wks getting us there.. I am not happy to see us give it all up without a fight. You can't make people want to win I guess.
On the "Nanny State".. we would ofc go that way if we could. The problem now as it has been, is finding reliable/trustable people to administer those programs for more than a week.
"Professor Oak, I understand that perspective, and if it works, it might be dandy. However, wouldn't it have been far cheaper to just all pack up and go to e-AUS and and fight with our Aussie bros like we did in the spring?"
My point is that it isn't a worthless campaign as some point it to be.
"Or, and I'm just improvising, but we may not even need to do that if e-AUS started a good old RW and we were MPP'ed in, granted, they have a few open wars that would need to get resolved and some MPP that need to be restored."
That's trueish. However the path we chose is fastest. We either had to go through Indonesia or all of South America, then New Zealand. The first option is what we did, the second option would require us fighting through either Mexico, Colombia, Peru, then to wherever NZ borders South America, or through Portugal, Brazil (North of Brazil, impossible battle that has never afaik been occupied for long) and down to wherever NZ borders South America.
Thus, Indonesia to Australia was the only viable way for us to get there. We could have gone RW but Australia has never been able to stand against Indo for long, and that wouldn't get us WA ourselves
@Professor Oak: stfu please. 1/3 the comments so far are yours. we get your point. and i think everyone else disagrees with you.
Lol. Oak, I was merely referring to the fact that this article addresses how the older and stronger players are the one that get the lion's share of our nation's wealth, yet despite your lack of experience points, you are still being treated as if you are one of them. And in response to your attack on my grammar, I took five seconds to write an inconsequential comment, don't get your panties all in a wad.
...wow. You're right. Shape up!
PS: Prof Oak: If your stated strategy of using Sumatra to open the path to Java, then onto the next, is going to work, then get your azz moving. Get going to fight for Java and go get 100 more to fight right now We are, as I write this, in Round 10 (and we are not winning) so we can take Java and move forward... because this has now (under you're interpretation of a plan) become our very expensive one shot deal since Sumatra has now fallen and we in it, in Java -- So get your Azz into gear and stop pontificating, I and many others have been spending our gold and fighting our butts off for this plan. GET moving NOW!!!