This is the second of a series of three posts outlining the expevolu system; if you haven’t read the first one I’d recommend you start there: Expevolu, a laissez-faire approach to country creation PART II – Perpetual Auctions Table of Contents: 1) The Problem 2) The Holdout Problem 3) Perpetual...
I write this post to present expevolu[1], a system to enable people to establish new independent countries peacefully, through the legal acquisition of territorial rights via trade. This is the first post in a three part series introducing the idea. This post, part I, is dedicated to explaining the basics...
Cool idea. I wasn't able to get to https://echo.jefftk.com/ on a brave browser, will try other browsers later.
I want to register my willingness to sing with other people of the community here, specially choir arrangements. Message me if you are interested. I live in Brazil in a remote area, so in person encounters would not be viable.
Thanks for the comment.
Interesting that you experienced such a strong aversion to it.
“I find both the written form and spoken form distasteful for some reason. It feels gutteral. And the similarity to "it" seems dehumanizing. Trying to put my finger on it, I think it's not in the range of words that could have been organically formed for that purpose; it feels semantically out of place.”
Couldn’t this be just lack of habituation to it?
I mean, after 6 months living in Utland would you still care?
Regarding being guttural, it doesn’t go against my aesthetics, English could be much more guttural and I wouldn’t mind. If it is a problem, however, it seems like... (read more)
This is the second of a series of three posts outlining the expevolu system; if you haven’t read the first one I’d recommend you start there:
Expevolu, a laissez-faire approach to country creation
Table of Contents:
1) The Problem
2) The Holdout Problem
3) Perpetual Auctions
4) The bypass by independence problem
5) Zero Tax Ceiling Intro
6) Zero Tax Ceiling
7) Inequality in the selling of CBs
8) Perpetual Auctions and Citizenship
9) Word of Caution and Conclusion
To institute a country, a founder would need to buy a very large quantity of contiguous Citizens Bundles (CBs) and a very large quantity of contiguous properties. For this to happen, the founder would need to have a very... (read 5701 more words →)
I will give the exact same answer I gave to this comment on my actual blog, but don't double count my appreciation :)
"Thanks for the kind and encouraging words, not just here but throughout my journey developing these ideas. The criticism was also very valuable."
Hey, ProgramCrafter.
Thanks for the comment.
Regarding your remarks on CBs, you spotted something important that is missing in this text: how CBs would be inherited. (Not necessarily, the population would increase, as you suggested, it may stay stable or decrease.) I have an inheritance scheme designed. In case of a growing family, the children would be granted the right to hold a (proportionally) smaller area in CBs and still have citizenship. It is not a particularly inspired solution, but it seems doable.
Regarding presenting the system in a positive light, I may be guilty of that, I don't know. It would be interesting to know what other readers think. However, lack of exploration is to be expected, given that the topic is vast. A large number of important benefits of the system were not presented in the text as well, I was not particularly excluding problems.
Thanks for the karma. Post published!
I write this post to present expevolu[1], a system to enable people to establish new independent countries peacefully, through the legal acquisition of territorial rights via trade.
This is the first post in a three part series introducing the idea.
This post, part I, is dedicated to explaining the basics of the system. Part II will deal mostly with a single important practical problem and its proposed solution. The third post, part III, will first discuss incentives of political agents (such as voters and politicians) in regards to the institution of the system and then provide a brief conclusion to the whole series.
The core of the system is in this first post and you... (read 12946 more words →)
Hi, Karl. Was planning to delurk today. Had a giant post to publish, however couldn't because I needed at least one karma point and lurking doesn't grant karma. :(
I see. Thanks for the reply.