God's imitator

Chapter 373 Compulsory

Yang Yuting asked with some doubt: "So, in reality, the six of you are subsidizing and sharing the profits out of your own pockets?"

Lee In-sook shook her head: "Not entirely, there are other situations as well."

"When a player dies unexpectedly, they will also receive additional bonuses."

"Let's take this example again. Each of the 12 players donates 10 minutes of visa time. Now let's assume that, including the author, the other 6 of us do not participate in profit sharing and are responsible for the profit sharing. Then the weekly profit sharing is 3 minutes of visa time."

"If one of the players dies, the bonus becomes 25000 minutes of visa time."

"After this player dies, the 10 minutes of visa time he originally deposited will automatically be converted into dividends, which is just enough for the other five players to receive dividends for 4 weeks."

"If no player dies within a month, that's something to celebrate, as players who enter the game are likely to have gained stable benefits."

"Since there is a stable income, there is no need to worry about dividends."

"Of course, there is also a smaller possibility that a player enters the game without dying but is burdened with heavy debt, just like the situation in other communities in 'Simple Q&A'."

"In this situation, we can only analyze each case specifically, since no proposal can be perfect."

Yang Yuting was silent for a moment: "So... in the end, this proposal is to solve two problems."

"The first is the 'time for reclaiming visas of deceased players'."

"The second is to 'further clarify the distribution of discourse power and other benefits'."

Lee In-sook nodded: "Yes."

"Many players are not eager to save their visa time, which may be because they think that 'voice' is unimportant to them, or they believe that even if they gain 'voice,' they will not be able to use it."

"In other words, even if different players in the community donate the same amount of visa time, the degree of influence they gain will be different."

"In this situation, players who gain more say must further reduce their profits, that is, guarantee the dividends."

"Of course, if other players want to be the fallback option, this plan can be adjusted further."

A silence fell over the hall as everyone lowered their heads in thought.

Lee In-sook intended to be open and honest with all players from the beginning, so she didn't try to hide anything and explained things very clearly.

Even for players who aren't very bright, it's not hard to understand.

Xu Tong's death resulted in a large amount of visa time being taken by copycats, which could not remain in the community, a loss for all players in the community.

Xu Tong was unwilling to deposit her visa time for two reasons. First, this visa time might be consumed when purchasing special items, leading to a decrease in her personal wealth. Second, players like Xu Tong could not gain significant influence in this process.

Because the power of discourse is something that cannot be subdivided.

Players in a five-person group naturally have more say, so even if Xu Tong and someone else in the group donate the same amount of visa time, the community will still tend to favor the other person's opinion when making decisions, and Xu Tong's opinion will most likely be ignored.

The same applies to players like Qin Yao and Zheng Jie.

Therefore, for them, the optimal solution is to donate only a small amount of visa time as a token gesture, since donating more would hardly give them enough influence.

A slight shift in the power dynamics of a small number of people is barely perceptible and cannot alter the original power structure of the community.

Moreover, even if these players have a voice, they are unlikely to use it, so having the same voice in their hands is meaningless and useless.

Therefore, this new proposal offers a novel solution: using dividends to redeem the rights. In effect, it's about redistributing profits between players like Wang Yongxin and Xu Tong, turning the previously unused, scattered power of voice for players like Xu Tong into tangible visa time.

According to Li Renshu's calculations, if 10 minutes of visa time are deposited, an additional 2500 to 5000 minutes of visa time can be obtained each week (depending on consumption).

5000 minutes is equivalent to about 3.5 days.

Of course, once deposited into the luxury goods fund, it can be spent at any time to purchase various special items, resulting in a proportional reduction in both principal and dividends.

However, whenever special items are purchased, a meeting is usually held to obtain the consent of most players, and the spending is still quite cautious.

Overall, the new proposal is indeed more attractive to players who have deposited their visa time than the old one.

Zheng Jie raised his hand and asked, "So... after this new bill is passed, will the visa processing time still be voluntary?"

Lee In-sook nodded: "Of course."

"If you don't want to save, it's not mandatory. However, you won't be able to receive any dividends in that case."

Just then, Cai Zhiyuan, who had been silent until now, spoke up.

"I do have a few things to say that I don't like to hear, and I need to say them now."

"Of course, before that I want to emphasize that these words do not represent my personal views. They are just to help everyone analyze the objective situation and to bring out what some players are embarrassed to say in advance."

"To avoid creating misunderstandings in communication."

"Simply put, I believe this proposal should be 'mandatory'."

Cai Zhiyuan's words surprised Li Renshu.

Although she had already discussed the matter with the other members of the five-person group, she had only finalized the content and general direction of the proposal; there was certainly no time to reach a complete consensus on the details.

However, Lee In-sook did not interrupt immediately, but listened silently.

Cai Zhiyuan continued:
“Since we started with ‘saving money for the community fund,’ we have gradually pushed for several adjustments to the proposal. Ultimately, the goal is the same: to encourage everyone to save more money.”

"Because only by saving more money can we activate new items and enhance the strength of the community."

This represents two different directions for the community's development:
"We can choose to fully embrace the collective, saving up all the extra visa time to activate various items with maximum efficiency; or we can choose to fully embrace the individual, with everyone doing their own thing, and the community purely as a place to chat and eat, maintaining maximum boundaries between each other."

"Judging from the current situation, the former has an advantage, but this is not absolute. If everyone wants to choose the latter, it is possible as long as enough votes are collected."

"However, we must fully embrace one of them, and we can no longer hesitate and try to have both."

"We have already given everyone ample time to think and weigh the pros and cons of the proposals we have pushed for several times before."

"At this point, everyone should have thought it through. The 'voluntary' approach has been going on for a long time, and there have been negative lessons like Xu Tong's, who lost tens of thousands of dollars in visa time. I think it's about time for the community to make a final decision."

“I can also say nice things with everyone, saying that ‘this bill is still entirely voluntary and not mandatory.’”

"But frankly, I can accept that this bill does not pass, but if it does pass, I hope it will be 'mandatory'."

"No matter how you use special props, it's difficult to achieve absolute fairness."

"The only fair way to use it is if no one uses it unless there are special items."

(End of this chapter)