...certain movers and shakers on the board have commented, that, in part, one of the reasons prices to make it onto the ballot are so doggone high is because we must be certain that a candidate would have high levels of support, and, in effect, it would be better to have one sincere team than alot of joke teams on the ballot.SirWhit wrote:You realize that the rich have no influence in the election fee? That's decided soley by Catspaw.
I won't comment on what this says about the site being discussed here. What I will say is that this mindset would have been fine when we had 80 or 90 or even 100+ users voting and donating money and leadership didn't have a somewhat insightful knowledge of every voter, but that is no longer the case. Because some users were here in the interest era, only one team usually gets onto the ballot, and usually only with the support of the Fat Cats and a few mortals. The many poor, on the other hand, really don't have a say and therefore have no influence.
In response to your second question, the solution here is not redistribution or class warfare. One can't get off one's "butt and make money" because it's like opening up an ice cream shop in the Anarctic. I'm fairly certain that if I asked the top 5 users in Crestwood how much they made in the past week, or month, or probably year, most of them would have made less than $10. Therefore, the solution is to acknowledge that interest is screwing up how the price to become mayor is set.
I hope you see where I'm going with this.