[DPJ] Fight the recession, FIGHT IT NOW!!
Day 831, 20:04
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Hello,
In the recent congress election, our candidate, Miyazaki Miho has achieved a great result. We achieved our primary objective to return her to congress with one of the widest margin in the election. The result is way beyond even my expectation. So, I thank everyone who turn up and voted for her, and hope that she will continue with the wonderful job she has done so far in congress, and continue to voice the concern of the public in the new congress.
Fight the recession
In Japan, the economy has been in very bad shape for a while now, and I am a bit disappointed that everyone from the government or the business communities has so far failed to challenge the status quo and fight the recession. It seems everyone has accepted Lana is to blame, and everyone is waiting for god... the admins to implement the new economic module to save us.
Instead of waiting for the doom or a messiah, I believe we should be more proactive in taking on the challenge.
Cycle of Doom
To understand the problem, let me give you a simplified explanation. In recent months, there is massive weapon boom in Japan and in the rest of the world that pushed the prices over the roof. New weapons companies started to pop up from everywhere including Japan, and for a while, we seem to have a shortage of weapons despite having 20+ Q1 weapon companies operating in Japan.
But this boom slowed down as more and more weapons were produced, and fewer weapons were sold. Perhaps some of this are contributed from the Lana phenomenon, perhaps the overproduction globally or other factors have contributed to this as well.
But once the weapons are pilling up in the world scale, the companies which had been enjoying a health profit are now struggling to sell their products. A bitter price war ensured as these companies are struggling to stay afloat. As they tried to minimise the company's operating expenditure to remain competitive, the first casualty is their employee's wages.
The wages for manufacturing jobs plummeted, and this also reduce their ability to spend on weapons during the military exercises. And so, the problem is compounded with some people obsessed with spending their money on training, and there are others who simply cannot afford to buy guns because of the wage cut.
Land industries are also affected by this, because with fewer products needed, the manufactuers decided to slow down or halt production all together, this resulted in a drop in demand for raw materials as well.
In 2 months time, Q1 weapons were sold as high as 3.3JPY on average are now less than 2JPY, Q1 food was 0.4JPY, and it is now 0.34JPY.
The recession is a problem we created ourself, like every action, there are consequences followed. If someone opened a new companies, there will be more competition in the market, it may flooded the market and force prices and wages to fall, however, no one is complain about the admin letting people to create new companies. The same can be said about Lana, the admin didn't force you to train with her. Blaiming the admins for this is pointless.
Indeed, the solution to the problem is very simple. There are a number of things we can do to improve the situation.
1. Stop being obsess about training, spend a potion of your money on gun, and spend on training only when you can really afford to.
2. We need to increase demand, this country has 500 or so active citizens, if each of them buy one gun a day, this will consume 500 guns, which is roughly about half of what we produced in our economy. I'd say we definitely aren't selling anywhere near this rate by observing how fast the market moves.
3. We need to cut supply, we are producing way too many guns out there. Given the size of our market, it is not feasible to have that many companies operating here. An export license may be a temperary solution to mitigate the problem and transfer to another country, but ultimately, some businesses need to be closed.
Work for Guns Project
For solution 1 and 3, it is really down to the individuals to execise some constiants. For solution 2, the DPJ party will start a Work for Guns initiative.
The name of the project speaks for itself, we will offer to pay a potion of wages to our employees with guns instead of money. In addition, we will also offer information and help to our employees about the importance of training with weapons, military ranks, etc.
Our objectives include
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1. To increase the demand for weapons in Japan by giving them lower level weapons a subsidised price.
2. Provide help and training to the employees about weapons and enable them to increase their rank faster.
3. Ensure the employees would continue to be active with communication.
I don't claim this will make the problem go away instantly, but this will take a few guns away from our local market everyday, which is a small step to relief the overproduction and shrinking wages situation. And if other companies follows, this could really help our economic recovery.
I have put WfGP in front of the name of any companies which participate in the program, which is the abbreviation of the Work for Guns Project. If you are interest, you can also use the same convention as well.
Link to company: http://www.erepublik.com/en/company/wfgp-work-for-guns-project-201050
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Second. Good article roland 🙂
Great idea...
First employee!
I like your thinking.
Pro-active for the win!
An excellent idea. You have my support, except I work in construction, so I'm not sure how important that really is.
I thank you for your interest. At the moment, we are doing this experiment with the manufacturing industry first to see if it work. We would welcome other private companies to use similar scheme in their companies whether they are manufacturing, housing, or land based companies.
"We will offer to pay a potion of wages to our employees with guns instead of money" - isn't this going to further reduce consumption? And thus worsen the problem?
The solution would be to provide incentives for consumption and the best solution is to increase population, though it might be one of more difficult ones. 🙂
"- isn't this going to further reduce consumption? And thus worsen the problem?"
It would depends on the implementation. Our implementation is a subsidised model where our organisation will pay part of the weapon cost, and the rest come from their wage.
Let's say for a skill 2 worker, the top offer now is 2.11JPY, that would hardly be enough for this person to buy a gun at this wage level. We offer them 1JPY and 1 gun as wage, making the total cost of the package to 2.8JPY.
A person earning only 2.11 will be very unlikely to buy a gun a day, given it is hardly enough for both food and weapon, the person under WfGP will take a gun with them as they work.
The thing is the project concentrate on increasing consumption from people who haven't been buying them or buying them regularly.
"The solution would be to provide incentives for consumption and the best solution is to increase population, though it might be one of more difficult ones. 🙂"
I agree that increase population is one of the solution, but this has been talk about for a long time (as long as I've played the game), and very little was done about it, so I dont know this can go anywhere.
Free market will sort out.
Best we can do is saving our monetary market, and whatever incentive we can to do to avoid economic collapse and steady decline in wage and price.
Good article. While much of us anticipate the coming of the new economic module and the greater variety of products it introduces, I'm not sure how much of a dent a company or two and its employees will have in the overall market at this time. There are companies that are desperate to get rid of stock and have nothing to lose by keeping prices low; products do not degrade over time and there currently is no daily/weekly/monthly tax on running an idle business. I applaud the initiative, though. Beware of Shinra! 😉
Good luck.
IMHO this is 3 factors:
1. Players put by money to Q5 houses or Q1 company. They only buy q1 food. IMHO we must subscribe reasons "why they must not save money as hamsters".
2. High prices in eJapan. "Black market" pull money out of the eJapan economy. If our prices are the top positions among the cheapest then foreign buyers buy our guns and other products
3. Greedy owners. If they will pay wages by productivity at the level of 92-94% of market price then player will have more money for the purchase. Micromanagement can save a lot of companies and players. The player can see how his work depends on wages and will work better and buy more.
eRussia has huge amount of "black dealers". They buy cheapest goods in eWorld and sell they from papers or "eBirzha". eBirzha is analog of "Commodity exchange" and any player can buy or sold anybody: goods, resources, votes (on congress elections). It's a scary place. A can say that: this is "abyss of amorality and greed" 😁'
IMHO any eCountry have black dealers. They can buy everything if this is cheapest in the eWorld.
З.Ы. Русскоговорящим лучше не делить слово еБиржа на 2 слова. Меня на хаха пробивает от этого постоянно.
I applaud the initiative, and wish you good luck on your program!
Indeed this problem is worldwide at the moment.
I forgot that "Lana's syndrome" is the main problem.
"It seems everyone has accepted Lana is to blame, and everyone is waiting for god... the admins to implement the new economic module to save us."
Lana is to blame though.
The mistake people make is believing that the new econ module will actually change anything for the better. It's just going to be more complicated, but--without a major nerf to strength's effect on the damage calculation--still every bit as broken.
"eRussia has huge amount of "black dealers". They buy cheapest goods in eWorld and sell they from papers or "eBirzha". eBirzha is analog of "Commodity exchange" and any player can buy or sold anybody: goods, resources, votes (on congress elections). It's a scary place. A can say that: this is "abyss of amorality and greed" 😁'
IMHO any eCountry have black dealers. They can buy everything if this is cheapest in the eWorld."
The black market is NOT going to offer us too much help, perhaps some, but it really isnt enough and neither is it inconsistent enough to be much help, since we are not the only country that is facing this problem, we are essentailly compete with a lot of countries for the same markee.
I mean, they have been active all these time, if they can solve our problem, then we shouldn't have the problem now!
And I got to say, the problem in other countries are just as bad, so if we are only depends on the black market to solve our problem, we will just sink to the bottom of the ocean with other countries who take no active step to solve this issue.
"The mistake people make is believing that the new econ module will actually change anything for the better. It's just going to be more complicated, but--without a major nerf to strength's effect on the damage calculation--still every bit as broken."
I agree with that.
>The black market is NOT going to offer us too much help
Of course. We can't donate thousands guns abroad. And cheapest goods isn't good for our citizens. We all sunk with economy or swim out. I'm not Vanga or Nostradamus and can't predict our future. Game's Doomsday Machine work at 150%.
We need to do what we can do ourself, by reducing supply and increasing demand, and we have to act now. Because we can't control what other countries would do, our focus should be on domestic consumption, and production, this is the goal of this project, and there are other benefits too, people gets to increase their rank faster, and this will have them to increase their damage in case there is a conflict.
You have my support in your work for guns plan