What colour is the sky in eCanada? (d842)

Day 842, 15:09 • Published in Canada Canada • by Addy Lawrence

It will be beige until v2!!!

Welcome to the Beige Agenda, an article building on Goran Thrax's splendid article and President Chucky's address.

First off, I'd like to thank Chucky for appointing me to the post of Director of Finance. I relish the opportunity to steer this ship through these troubled waters.

I'll cut to the chase, in replacing Jacobi as Director of Finance I will be sending grandma flowers, not arsenic. It’s true that grandma is not well, she has terminal cancer, and she is not alone, there are other grandmas like her. All v1 grandmas are sick and we don't know how to cure them. We can make their last days more enjoyable. Let’s park the metaphors for a minute.

The impending v2 is breeding a lot of fear. There will be changes to commodities, products, companies and the abundance of resources in regions. We know these things will be changed but we do not know how they will be changed. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO OUT-GUESS ADMIN!!! For that reason, our nation must stay the course and not do anything radical.

Prices are collapsing (duh!) I keep a metric equal to the sum of all eRep currencies and it has been trending down as of late and creating new lows each day; it's eRep wide. There is no silver bullet to cure this, we have to ride it out, to “spend and live” through it.

Our focus must shift toward what is within our control. Follow the do's and don'ts in Goran Thrax's article. To build on this, promoting stability amongst the variables is also within our control, namely income taxes, import tarrifs, VAT, wages, and selling prices.

I do not control congress, nor GM's, nor eCitizens, nor eTraders, however I do have a message for them, and that is The Beige Agenda.

THE BEIGE AGENDA

1) Congressmen, keep income taxes as they are.

2) Congressmen, keep import tariffs as they are.

3) Congressmen, keep VAT where it is and monitor product prices. Should there be a run-up of prices due to some unexpected source of demand, let’s implement a 5% VAT on that product to generate liquidity for v2 and stem additional volatility.

4) GM’s, lower your margins and your prices. eRep is abound with overproduction and inventories are being sold off at firesale prices. It is important to keep the nation working, do your best to keep eCitizens employed. This is already going on however this agenda is a social contract between government, business and people and the expectations must be clear.

5) GM’s, do not overproduce. Flooding a flooded market doesn’t help. Throttle back where you can, drop to 9 employees instead of 10.

6) GM’s, where you have a choice, sell in foreign markets and take some of the heat off of eCanada. This is a very practical protection of Canada.

7) eCitizens, accept the wage cuts. The GM’s are not gouging, they are hemmoraging and need the relief. Consider the fact that most of these inventories were accumulated during high wage times, companies are going through hard times just like you. The cost of living is as low as ever, you can deal with a cut.

😎 eTraders, lay off eCanadian gold, its needed for the v2 migration.

Comment on this article hard to show your support for this social contract, The Beige Agenda. Vote it, sub it, shout it and ~fkuu~ it!!!

V2 is coming. Like a freight train. I have a mandate from Chucky and Goran Thrax to develop a purse of 2,000 gold for eCanada to deal with the transition to v2. The national target is 2,000 gold. This gold will be used to that take advantage of opportunities that present themselves in v2, from starting replacement Crown Corporations to ecitizen development programs to development grants to upgrade companies or buy export licenses.

There is no cure for the cancer that is afflicting grandma, we only have the Beige Agenda. Grandma will die, no matter how heroic our efforts are. Let's not spend gold on snake oil, let's not bring her to the Homeopathic Tarriff Class for meditation, its a waste of effort and liquidity. Conserve wealth and energy and let her die in peace.

When she dies, our mother will be our son’s grandma. We must be the leaders to our sons today so that our mother is treated right tomorrow. With a gold purse, our son will be able to spend a lot of quality time with our mom while she still has her health.

Who’s your daddy? Addy’s your daddy!!! Thank god I ain’t Jacobi’s grandpa!!!