God's imitator

Chapter 31 Basic Livelihood
Fu Chen took out paper and pen: "Okay, let's draft two different proposals."

"For the first proposal, as Cai Zhiyuan suggested, we'll put forward a more idealistic plan. Although it's highly unlikely to be approved, it will help us further confirm the community's rules."

"And if it passes, then we'll make a fortune."

"This proposal is... the community will give each community player 10,000 minutes, no, 1,000 minutes of visa time every day."

"Ten thousand minutes is too much, exceeding the required 1440 minutes per day, and the probability of failure is much higher."

"In comparison, the success rate of a 1,000-minute proposal is slightly higher. If a 1,000-minute proposal passes, we can try to escalate it next time."

"If a proposal cannot be passed even after a thousand minutes, then it is clear that this path is simply not viable."

He looked up, saw that no one else objected, and then continued writing.

"The second proposal is that we will deduct 3000 minutes of visa time from the three players with the most remaining visa time each day and transfer it to the three players with the fewest remaining visa time."

Li Renshu quickly shook her head: "No, no, no, that's not appropriate."

“This is somewhat like ‘robbing the rich to help the poor,’ and it may not get more than half the votes. At least Wang Yongxin would absolutely not agree to it.”

Cai Zhiyuan didn't care: "So what if Wang Yongxin disagrees? We only need 7 votes."

“As long as the five of us can reach a consensus, and we can get two votes from Uncle Ding, Aunt Su, or anyone else outside, this plan can be implemented without Wang Yongxin’s consent.”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Fu Chen.

However, after a moment of silence, Fu Chen crossed out his previous proposal.

"It's best to get everyone's agreement, otherwise it could create some unnecessary rifts."

He then looked at Lin Sizhi: "Attorney Lin, what do you think?"

Everyone knows that Lin Sizhi and Wang Yongxin profited the most from the previous game, so if this plan is implemented, the result will be that visa time will be taken away from them.

Obtaining Lin Sizhi's consent is crucial.

Lin Sizhi pondered for a moment: "I also think this plan is not quite appropriate."

"It's not because I'm reluctant to give up 3000 minutes of visa processing time each day, which isn't a huge amount. The main reason is that I think this plan is not conducive to unity within the community."

"Simply put, this way of providing welfare is a bit too crude."

Fu Chen lowered his head and thought for a moment: "Hmm...maybe so. I don't really have much experience in this area."

"Then... is there a better solution?"

Lee In-sook picked up the thread: "What we need to do now is actually to redistribute the visa time available to each person, in other words, it's about 'taxation'."

"If we want to provide welfare and security for the entire community, we must first collect this portion of visa time before we can talk about redistribution."

"The principle of taxation is to take the most feathers from the goose and hear the fewest cries from it."

"In other words, we should levy taxes universally, rather than just targeting the top three."

"Furthermore, we should use all the visa time we receive to redeem food and supplies for redistribution, rather than directly transferring these visa time to specific individuals."

“We provide basic welfare guarantees, but we cannot create a tendency to ‘support lazy people’.”

Fu Chen pondered for a moment, then added a few more lines to his original plan on the paper: "Yes, that's right."

What Lee In-sook said was not difficult to understand; everyone present was intelligent and quickly grasped her meaning.

Taking visa time from the top three applicants and transferring it directly to the bottom three is certainly a form of redistribution, but it is too crude and easily causes dissatisfaction among many people.

The top three teams will definitely be dissatisfied because this is too targeted.

Those who rank slightly ahead may also be dissatisfied, because they may also become one of the top three in the future. This may make them more restrained in the later games, or even deliberately control their visa time balance.

Even those who are slightly behind, but not in the bottom three, will be dissatisfied.

Because even though their visa duration is limited, they cannot benefit from this rule.

The bottom three are essentially reaping benefits without working, which goes beyond the scope of "minimum guarantee".

Each person's visa time is hard-earned, and earning more visa time may even involve risking their lives. Therefore, an overly direct and crude allocation method is likely to provoke public opposition.

Lee In-sook said, "I think it's worth it."

"Let's calculate the approximate visa time required to exchange all the daily necessities that everyone needs."

"If it's just for a meal, 80 minutes is enough for the visa interview."

"For 12 people, the visa processing time is 960 minutes."

"The total amount of visa time we earned from 'Blood Poker' before seems to be... 1,055,500."

0.1%.

"We only need to deduct 0.1% from the total visa time each day to cover everyone's essential living supplies."

"Of course, considering that visa processing time will naturally pass over time, as well as issues such as the margin for error, there is still a lot of room for this number to be increased."

Li Renshu's calculations were actually rather rough, but they were generally correct.

Previously, the big screen displayed the visa time that everyone had obtained from "Blood Poker," and Lee In-sook had already made corresponding records at that time.

Fu Chen suddenly realized something: "Wait, the big screen said earlier that these chips would only be converted into everyone's visa time after 24 hours."

"Does this also imply that we can actually change the allocation method within 24 hours?"
How much longer until 24 hours have passed?

Cai Zhiyuan glanced at the wall clock in the room: "There's still a little over an hour left."

Fu Chen nodded: "Then we need to hurry."

Lee In-sook continued, "We can consider two approaches:"

"The first option is to deduct based on the total visa duration for each person, at 0.1% per day or 3% per month."

"The second method is to deduct based on the visa time earned in each game. Assuming that each person plays at least one game per month, then based on the current rate of return, deducting a fixed 3% or 5% from the game earnings would be sufficient."

After a moment's consideration, the others said, "Then the latter option is better."

While the former option seems good, it could easily disrupt people's original spending plans.

Assuming a daily deduction of 0.2% or a monthly deduction of 6%, then for an individual player, the more they spend before the tax is deducted, the more cost-effective it is.

The daily deduction is 0.1%. If a player's original balance is 10, then 100 will be deducted; if he spends money in a rush the day before and his balance is reduced to 8, then only 80 will be deducted.

This difference may seem insignificant, but among the 12 players, there are quite a few who are very careful with their money.

If some players accumulate a large amount of visa time in the future, far exceeding their daily living needs, they will inevitably try to pay as little tax as possible through sudden spending.

Therefore, this method has certain drawbacks.

Although it may not be obvious at first, it may cause a series of problems later.

In comparison, it is easier to gain the support of most people to deduct 3% from the game's rewards after each game, without discrimination.

After thinking for a moment, Cai Zhiyuan raised a new question: "However, the calculation method of deducting 3% from game revenue to maintain basic living needs is based on a premise: that each person plays at least one game per month, and the current rate of return must be maintained."

"Do we need to make this explicit in the rules?"
"Suppose that some people, not due to force majeure, but out of personal choice to be lazy and deliberately not participate in the game for a month, should we still formulate corresponding punishment measures?"

Lee In-sook shook her head: "No, please."

"Once such rules are established, it means that there will be someone specifically tasked with judging the subjective intent of those who violate them, which could easily lead to the spread of conflict."

"Moreover, our current welfare policies only address the issue of food and do not cover the daily natural consumption of visa time."

"In other words, it is impossible to survive by relying solely on welfare policies."

"When visa time is running out, people will still participate in games and try to earn as much visa time as possible. Therefore, the situation you are worried about is unlikely to occur."

"Of course, if there are concerns that the revenue may not be sustainable in future games, and to increase the margin for error, this number can be increased to 5% or even higher."

After a brief discussion, Fu Chen finalized the two plans.

(End of this chapter)