[MoTI] Tax Raises & The Future Economy
Grampa Alfagrem
The enduring battle between Tax & Spend Vs Budget & Tax has resulted in a win for the former and Work Tax is back up to 2%
So how does this effect the profitability of our RM companies?
So as my self appointed term as a pretend minister draws to a close me and my imaginary team look forward to the future shape of the economy that has in part been prompted by the continuing fall in RM and finished product prices...
So we are certainly in for some exciting times before the end of the year and our incoming executives and congressmembers of tomorrow have some hard decisions in front of them.
~Alfagrem
Not a Gov. Minister
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If only more CP's had pretend ministers!
I love reading the same thing twice o/
What a loser
get a life
no one gives a fooked
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When did you crawl out of the woodwork? I miss your articles? ❤
great article, thanks
I'm confused why profit is higher when tax is higher. Each WAM cost is based on average national wage times work tax, so, WAM cost increases with taxes, right?
If you're talking about the first 2 graphics the 'profit @ 'x'" is the sale price of the RM produced.
If you're talking the difference between the situation now and the final situation.......
Today a WAM click costs 0.72 in tax and 0.30 in health replen = £1.02
Under future conditions this will be;
0.48 in tax and 0.05 in health replen = £0.52
as the sale price is static at 0.01 then profit is ofc greater.
Luxury products are necessary. You can buy several Q7 tanks with one salary.
Q8 food and weapons could fix that but only if well thought. I'd like that they consumed all lower Q products instead of raw, similarly to rocket factories. The longer production chain would ensure that even small companies would benefit from Q8's. Exact amounts required should set the initial prices above the average salary.
Lastly, for Q8 food to be in demand it shouldn't just recover more hp per unit. It should have some energy efficiency bonus, for example you have 100hp to recover and eat Q8 food - 120hp gets recovered (+20😵. Effectively it would work like an extra energy regeneration, but costly.
wasnt partly the reason it all went tits up initially was cuz Q7s were far moar powerful then Q6s?
ott relax kid
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/second-article1-2439338/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-thank-you-alfa-fund-2441292/1/20
I have a few questions, some are actual questions others are statements I'd like you to comment on.
1. What does WAM stand for?
2. What solutions do you have, it's very good pointing out a problem but if you can't solve it it just becomes a panic.
3. You left out the house market, which was introduced to try and inject life into the market.
4. When you say: "If this employee is on minimum wage" are you talking about the current minimum wage or the minimum the game will allow (0.10 cc).
5. By raising the minimum wage the price is forced up, and if this gradually raised and then dropped suddenly then the price would likely still stay at the same rate before again creating a race to floor price.
1. Work as Manager = Working in your own companies
2. There isn't a solution availble to avoid this without a game mechanic change as stats are stats and math don't lie.
The responses will vary according to taste. Some might welcome forced communistation, others will fight for a free market and others will fret and fiddle and come up with nothing.
3. Housing is a busted Sector as it sells you something of little actual value (energy store) whos demand will decrease as companies become unprofitable, population declines and even with health regen it will be less economical then EB's as admin wants to sell EB's in addition to giving such things away thru battle rewards.
4. Minimum wage in UK is the game minimum wage
5. Raising min wage would force prices up for the nation that does that but would kill that nations economy as its markets would be flooded with cheaper produce thru buy abroad and sell at home.
I probably should have worked that first one out aha.
Would you agree therefore that the economic mechanics of the game are over simplified?
I did notice that after I posted, silly of me to not have checked.
But if import tax on those items were raised so that it was still more profitable to produce them at home, then might it work?
Eventually though won't the market self regulate?