Minimum Living Standard

Fu Chen took out a pen and paper. "Okay, then let's draft two different proposals."

"For the first one, as Cai Zhiyuan suggested, we'll propose a more idealistic plan. Although it's highly unlikely to pass, it will help us further confirm the community's rules."

"And if it happens to pass, we'll hit the jackpot."

"This proposal is... the community will issue 10,000 minutes, no, 1,000 minutes of visa time to each community player daily."

"10,000 minutes is too much, exceeding the required 1,440 minutes per day, making failure more likely."

"Relatively speaking, a 1,000-minute proposal will have a slightly higher chance of success. If the 1,000-minute proposal passes, we can try to increase it next time."

"If even the 1,000-minute proposal cannot pass, then it's clear that this path is completely unworkable."

He looked up, and seeing no objections from the others, continued writing.

"For the second proposal, we will deduct 3,000 minutes of visa time daily from the three players with the most remaining visa time and transfer it to the three players with the least remaining visa time."

Li Renshu quickly shook her head. "No, no, no, that's not appropriate."

"This is a bit like 'robbing the rich to help the poor,' and it might not get more than half the votes. At least Wang Yongxin will definitely not agree."

Cai Zhiyuan didn't care. "So what if Wang Yongxin disagrees? We only need 7 votes."

"As long as the five of us can reach a consensus, and we can get just two more votes from Uncle Ding, Aunt Su, or others outside, this plan can be implemented without Wang Yongxin's agreement."

After speaking, he looked at Fu Chen.

However, Fu Chen was silent for a moment before crossing out his previous proposal.

"We should try our best to get everyone to agree, otherwise, it might create some unnecessary rifts."

He then looked at Lin Sizhi. "Lawyer Lin, what do you think?"

Everyone knew that Lin Sizhi and Wang Yongxin had profited the most from the previous games. Therefore, if this plan were truly implemented, the result would be taking visa time from them.

Gaining Lin Sizhi's agreement was crucial.

Lin Sizhi pondered for a moment. "I also think this plan is not quite appropriate."

"It's not that I'm reluctant to part with 3,000 minutes of visa time daily; that's not a large amount. The main reason is that I believe this plan is not conducive to unity within the community."

"Simply put, this method of welfare provision is a bit too crude."

Fu Chen lowered his head and thought. "Hmm... perhaps. I really don't have much good experience in this area."

"Then... do you have a better proposal?"

Li Renshu chimed in. "What we need to do now is actually redistribute the visa time each person has. In other words, it's 'taxation'."

"To provide welfare for the entire community, we first need to collect this visa time before we can talk about redistribution."

"And the principle of taxation is to 'pluck the most feathers from the goose that honks the least.' "

"In other words, we should collect it universally, not just from the top three."

"Moreover, the collected visa time should preferably be used entirely to exchange for food and supplies for redistribution, rather than directly transferring the visa time to specific individuals."

"We are providing basic welfare, but we cannot create a tendency to 'support the lazy'."

Fu Chen pondered for a moment, then crossed out his original proposal on the paper a few more times. "Hmm, that's indeed true."

What Li Renshu said was easy to understand. Everyone present was intelligent and quickly grasped her meaning.

Taking visa time from the top three and directly transferring it to the bottom three was indeed a form of redistribution, but it was too blunt and likely to provoke dissatisfaction from many.

The top three would definitely be unhappy because it was too targeted.

Those slightly higher up might also be unhappy because they could potentially become the top three in the future, which would make them restrain themselves in subsequent games or even deliberately control their visa time balance.

Even those slightly lower, but not in the bottom three, might be unhappy.

Because they also had little visa time, yet they wouldn't benefit from this rule.

The bottom three would essentially be getting something for nothing, which went beyond the scope of "minimum basic needs."

Everyone's visa time was earned through their own hard work, and in the future, earning visa time might even involve risking their lives.

Therefore, an overly direct and crude distribution method was likely to provoke widespread opposition.

Li Renshu said, "I think we could do this."

"Let's calculate the approximate visa time needed to exchange for essential daily supplies for everyone."

"Just for food, 80 minutes of visa time would be enough."

"For 12 people, that's 960 minutes of visa time."

"The total amount of visa time we earned from 'Blood Poker' before was... 1,055,500."

"0.1%."

"We only need to deduct 0.1% of the total visa time daily to cover everyone's essential living supplies."

"Of course, considering that visa time naturally depletes over time, and accounting for error margins, there's significant room to increase this figure."

Li Renshu's calculation was actually quite rough, but generally correct.

Previously, the large screen had displayed the visa time each person had obtained from "Blood Poker," and Li Renshu had already made corresponding records at that time.

Fu Chen suddenly realized something, "Wait, the big screen said earlier that these chips would only be converted into everyone's visa time after 24 hours.

"Isn't this also implying that we can actually change the distribution method within 24 hours?

"How much time is left until the 24 hours are up?"

Cai Zhiyuan looked at the wall clock in the room, "There's a little over an hour left."

Fu Chen nodded, "Then we need to hurry."

Li Renshu continued, "We can consider two methods:

"First, deduct based on each person's total visa time, 0.1% per day, or 3% per month.

"Second, deduct based on the visa time earned in each game. Assuming each person plays at least one game per month, then at the current rate of return, deducting a fixed 3% or 5% from the game's earnings would be completely sufficient."

After a moment of consideration, the others said, "Then the latter option is better."

Although the former plan seemed good, it could easily affect everyone's original spending plans.

If 0.2% was deducted daily or 6% monthly, then for individual players, the more they spent before taxes, the more cost-effective it would be.

With the same 0.1% daily deduction, if a player's balance was originally 100,000, then 100 would be deducted. If they spent aggressively the day before, reducing their balance to 80,000, then only 80 would be deducted.

This difference might seem insignificant, but among the 12 players, there were quite a few who were meticulous with their calculations.

If some players in the future accumulated a large amount of visa time, far exceeding what was needed for daily life, they would inevitably spend aggressively to minimize their tax payments.

Therefore, this method had certain flaws.

While it might not be obvious initially, it could lead to a series of problems later on.

In contrast, deducting 3% from the earnings of each game after it concluded, treating everyone equally, was more likely to gain majority support.

Cai Zhiyuan pondered for a moment before raising a new question, "However, the calculation method of a fixed 3% deduction from game earnings to maintain basic living needs is based on a premise: that each person plays at least one game per month, and the current rate of return is maintained.

"Do we need to clarify this in the rules?

"If some people, within a month, deliberately slack off and choose not to participate in games, not due to force majeure but personal choice, should we implement corresponding penalties?"

Li Renshu shook her head, "I don't think so.

"Once such rules are established, it would mean having dedicated personnel to judge the subjective intentions of offenders, which could easily lead to baseless accusations and ignite conflicts.

"Moreover, the welfare policy we've currently established only solves the problem of food, and doesn't cover the natural daily consumption of visa time.

"In other words, survival is impossible solely on the welfare policy.

"When their visa time is running low, people will still participate in games and try to earn more visa time. Therefore, the situation you're worried about likely won't occur.

"Of course, if you're concerned that future games might not maintain this rate of return and want to increase the margin of error, you could raise this figure to 5% or even higher."

After another brief discussion, Fu Chen finalized these two plans.