Subject: RE: [smof-politics] Thought for solving two housing crises, but is the cost too high?
From: "Benjamin Rhodes" ([url=mailto:blackrider@roughriders.fen[/url])
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 22:28
To: undisclosed-recipients
Easy there, Mal. I have nothing against socialism myself - it's a great system for smaller governments and communities to use - but when they grow up capitolism is a better way to go. At least with something as large as this.
This isn't just Boardwalk and Parkplace we're talking about. We're going to be buying up properties all over the damn board. And that, my socialist amigo, is a fuck-ton 'o mana, no matter how cheaply they're selling them to us. I estimate that it's gonna cost about eleven-million Solcreds just to buy the damn houses. Noah's rich, but I seriously doubt that he can afford to lose that much.
What will have to happen is that we will need to make arrangements with the Martian settlements for them to purchase the homes from Noah. Once they are in the ownership of the communes, then they can decide how they're gonna handle it, whether it be selling, renting, or allotting them out. And if it tweaks your socialist sensabilities too much, then we can just do this all at-cost. I'm pretty sure that Noah, at the very least, will settle for breaking even.
-Benjamin
Roughriders of 36 Atalante
Would you like blind, broke, or bedlam?
From: "Benjamin Rhodes" ([url=mailto:blackrider@roughriders.fen[/url])
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 22:28
To: undisclosed-recipients
Easy there, Mal. I have nothing against socialism myself - it's a great system for smaller governments and communities to use - but when they grow up capitolism is a better way to go. At least with something as large as this.
This isn't just Boardwalk and Parkplace we're talking about. We're going to be buying up properties all over the damn board. And that, my socialist amigo, is a fuck-ton 'o mana, no matter how cheaply they're selling them to us. I estimate that it's gonna cost about eleven-million Solcreds just to buy the damn houses. Noah's rich, but I seriously doubt that he can afford to lose that much.
What will have to happen is that we will need to make arrangements with the Martian settlements for them to purchase the homes from Noah. Once they are in the ownership of the communes, then they can decide how they're gonna handle it, whether it be selling, renting, or allotting them out. And if it tweaks your socialist sensabilities too much, then we can just do this all at-cost. I'm pretty sure that Noah, at the very least, will settle for breaking even.
-Benjamin
Roughriders of 36 Atalante
Would you like blind, broke, or bedlam?