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RE: "Fixing" Curation Rewards -OR- How Much Is A Poor Person Worth?
Im all for equalizing influence, but it seems a little irrational to want a system where you can buy in for $15 and have a level of influence somehow comparable with a major stakeholder.
I don't call 0.0045 (1/224th) "somehow comparable" -- but what do you think is a fair ratio? Surely not the current 0.00002 (1/50,000th) . . . .
I think a stake weighted influence differential is fine. To me the guy that has 100 shares ought to have twice the say as the guy who has 50 shares.
Im willing to accept as a necessity that it probably has to be somewhat more superlinear than that.
So . . . . do you believe that Bill Gates should have thousands of times the votes for president that you have (based upon what he pays in income taxes and what you pay)?
No. Because america is a country. The president gets to make laws and do shit that has an effect on me even if i don't want anything to do with him. I can't sell back my stock in being an american citizen, wash my hands, and be done with it.
I believe he should have thousands (or millions or whatever) of times more votes for what product microsoft makes next... because microsoft is a company and he owns thousands or millions or whatever times more stock in microsoft than i do.
Ah . . . . but Bill Gates DOES have the equivalent of thousands of times the votes you do through massive campaign donations (if he wishes).
The equivalent? No. He has considerably more influence than i do in some sense, but thats not the equivalent of having more votes than I do. Its something different but related (which is where the analogy started out, iirc)
There is a difference between 'similar' and the 'same'.