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Chapter 1: Stuff concerning SM Corp
1.1 SM Corp status update
1.2 The deal with SM Corp stockprice
1.3 Future for SM Corp
Chapter 2: Stuff concerning the CEO and his candidature for the swedish Congress. (Will be written in swedish)
2.1 History in e-sim for SMTaishan
2.2 What triggered SMTaishan's candidature for Congress
2.3 What the heck SMTaishan stands for so you know what you are voting on
Bored yet? yeah I thought so, but no worries. If you don't care then just carry on with your life.
Chapter 1
Section 1.1 SM Corp status update
SM Corp has at the moment 6 quality 5 companies. 2 of these are in Sweden with in total 10 swedish workers producing diamonds and gifts. The other 4 are located in Belgium producing wood and houses. The two house companies have in total 13 swedish workers at the moment, while the two wood companies are open for the general public in belgium to work in.
The reason for getting wood and house companies is purely that it is currently more profitable to have them rather than more iron/grain/diamond industries. We expect the prices for housing to drop quite a bit eventually but for now we will stick with what we have.
We do provide very competitive salaries at the moment. 0.1g of these are temporary due to the stone/estate hype that drove up the salaries to the extreme in sweden, france and greece a couple weeks back.. We havn't really found it justified yet to remove this temporary bonus as the public salaries availible are still quite high and we like to be able to offer good salaries in order to have higher chance of keeping loyal workers. It does have quite an impact on the profits though.. Luckily the housing companies still earn that little extra so it still works out.
Section 1.2 The Deal with SM Corp stockprice
Alright, so this subject is a bit of a sore point.. Originally we planned to never let the CEO go below 50% shares in the stock company. At the same time we planned to keep the stockprice at 5 gold per share... At some point we decided that most shareholders would vote with the CEO anyway so it didn't really matter if he kept 50% share or not..
However it soon became apparent that more and more shareholders were against issuing new shares for 5g each as they would rather boost up the stockprice right away and sell off their shares with instant profit, rather than the long term dividend we planned for. So in order to try to keep the stockprice at 5g a share we forced through one or two issue shares votes too many, and it sortof went out of control...
That's when the CEO realized that he doesn't have near enough funds to hold the stockprice steady, and with these extra shares it's bound to come out of hand shortly anyway.. which brings us to the next section..
Section 1.3 Future for SM Corp
Basically we must put the expansion of our stock company on hold in order for the CEO to over time be able to increase his % share of the stock company. There are still new shares issued, but these are priced at 10g each instead of the previous 5g each just to have a limit with the free market. We doubt any shares will be sold because frankly they are not worth 10g each. They are mostly there for show.
In the meantime we will continue with the daily dividends, or every other day dividends as they are now to not spam peoples notification logs that much. Its sortof bad that we have 900 shares and only 6 q5 companies, as the goal is to have 1 q5 company per 100 shares.. meaning we are 3 q5 companies short right now.. and thats 3 gold extra that the current companies will have to bring in per day to pay for dividend.. It might not be possible in the long run, but the house companies are keeping things afloat at the moment.
We do have quite a large supply of stuff which theoreticallly could be sold off in order to get a few more companies, like 350 golds worth of q5 gifts, 400+ gold in gold and currencies, some 250+ gold in raw materials.. However of course we don't really want to just dump stuff off at low prices only to get rid of it... so it's a bit of a dilemma..
In any case, the basic goal of being a stock company which provides small daily dividend with a close to steady stock price still exists.. In an ideal world it would work too, but ah well, we do what we can..
As an ending line on this part of the article, we wouldn't really mind if someone wants to waste a lot of gold and buy the 100 shares for 10g each that we have on the stock market
go ahead ^^
Chapter 2
Section 2.1 History in e-sim for SMTaishan
Okay, most of this you can read in previous articles of this newspaper but essentially I got interested in the money market to use as base for gaining capital to start and invest in a stock company which would be different than other stock companies. During this time other plans have popped up like potentially starting a military unit, running for some political office and generally taking more part in the swedish e-sim thing. None of these plans have actually been executed yet except for the stock company one.
I will carry on in swedish from here as the last two sections will only be about SMTaishans candidature for the swedish congress. The only interest others might have would be investors worrying if this would take time off running the stock company. Really, the stock company has halted expansion due to reasons explained above. We have a loyal workforce since we pay those high salaries and things really run themselves now.. I hope at least since I'l be away a few days this weekend on holiday... So no, the stock company shouldn't suffer because I found interest in doing more things in my time here.
Section 2.2 (In swedish..) Vad som fick SMTaishan att ställa upp i kongressvalet
yay, svenska! För att gå rakt på sak då så är jag generellt missnöjd med hur delar av systemet fungerar i riksdagen/regeringen idag. Finansen sköts finfint av Uldrer och Wilvorin. Utrikespolitiken och försvaret fungerar till synes väl. Inrikespolitiken och framtidsplanerna däremot kan behöva lite kärlek.
Den största enskilda punkten jag är missnöjd med är att partipolitik inte existerar. Folk vet inte vad de röstar på när de röstar på någon kandidat. Kanske i individuella frågor ja, men inte helheten. Det tråkiga är att inte tillräckligt många är engagerade i politiken vilket gör att enskilda riksdagsmedlemmar (alltså de som är i kongressen, från och med nu kallad riksdagen) kan komma med i princip vilka förslag som helst, och så länge de inte är helt uppåt väggarna tokiga så går mycket igenom med reaktionen "meh.. orkar du hålla på så visst, jag kan väl stödja ditt förslag". Partipolitik kan inte jag som ensam person införa, men däremot kan jag missbruka det nuvarande systemet genom att ställa upp i valet och försöka driva igenom en massa förslag jag har om jag blir vald =)
Egentligen vill jag hellre göra min röst hörd utan att vara med i kongressen, men det verkar vara omöjligt att fixa voice i #riksdagen om man inte är med i kongressen eller är en blondin i Rahls sängkammare, så då får jag vackert ställa upp och göra rätt för min plats om jag blir vald. En annan tråkig sak är att många är aktiva och igång med politiken i början av mandatet och tappar helt intresset i slutet, vilket vi också måste försöka motverka och jag kan åter igen bara göra min del där.
Sektion 2.3 Vad SMTaishan står för och varför du ska rösta på honom
Först och främst står jag för långsiktigt ekonomiskt tänkade, vilket jag försöker förmedla i aktiebolaget jag startade som på något sätt har gått och blivit det i särklass största aktiebolaget i eSverige med ett värde på ungefär 3300 guld. För att eSverige i framtiden ska kunna bli en makt att verkligen räkna med så måste svenskarna öka sina inkomster på något sätt. Ett väldigt bra sätt, om än tråkigt, är att uppmana folk att köra hårt ekonomiskt de första fyra månaderna man spelar för att sen sikta in sig på att slå med 15q5 mat och 75q1 vapen i krigen. Då har man fått upp bra med styrka med så ens skada faktiskt betyder en del. 500 pers som slår så gör minst 300k skada var vilket skulle bli 150 miljoner skada som standard om dagen.
Några förslag som jag stöder är att dels starta ett sorts program som ska utbilda/locka/uppmana folk att tänka långsiktigt och inte fastna som fattiglappar. Har man väl fått ihop 250 guld efter några månaders tid så bör de 250 gulden iallafall kunna generera en inkomst på 0.5 guld extra om dagen vilket kan komma väl till hand i längden.
För att gå vidare lite så pratas det ibland om att eSverige har goda statsfinanser och förvaltar tillgångar på över 7000 guld nu. Ca 35-40% av inkomsterna delas i nuläget ut till Sveriges MUs som slår för Sverige, medans resten mest samlas på hög i väntan på bistrare tider. Helt öppet välkomnas det förslag på vad vi skulle kunna göra för att förvalta de pengarna under tiden.
Jag har på senare tid fastnat för ett förslag som går ut på att staten skulle betala mellanskillnaden för att flytta svenskägda järn/vapen/diamant/gift-företag utomlands till sverige. Detta kan kosta säkert 30-40g per q5 företag från utländskt high-område till motsvarande svenska highområde, men att ha fler företag i Sverige ökar våra långsiktiga skatteinkomster och bör vara i rikets intresse.
Ett annat förslag jag står för är att subventionera inträdet till de statliga MUna med 5 guld. Alltså gratis att gå med GMU (vilket det redan är), 5g att byta upp sig till TSM (i dagsläget 10g), 10g att byta upp sig från TSM till AJB och sen 30g att gå från AJB till SOG, för totalt 45g inträde till SOG. Det är ingen stor kostnad för staten (HKV orget i det här fallet eftersom det är HKV som driver de statliga MUna och inte Sweden org), men skulle öka intresset lite för de statliga MUna relativt alla privata MUn som oftare erbjuder bättre villkor.
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