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Recently Lithuania Org , the national org put out an article entitled "[EN] FREE Money in Lithuania for You!" . Now, the title implies that you will gain free currency (money) by simply living in Lithuania via an array of "money offers" -- such as a guaranteed repurchase of properties located in Lithuania's core regions and certain territories, a subsidy for citizens who fight in Lithuanian resistance wars, and a minuscule publicly funded lottery that gives out three prizes of 50 LTL
.

This all sounds great but there is an embedded cost in all of this.





The Lottery

Firstly, let us start with the lottery, as it is the easiest to attack for its duplicity. Let's base this model on a ES 6.5 Worker, which is the average of ((1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12)/12)) At the time of research, a Level 6.5 Worker will earn 26.03 LTL
before taxes. Lithuania has a income tax rate of 15% or0.15This means that a worker will pay a total of 3.90 LTL
per day. The current tax base (residents + citizens) of Lithuania is 1544 individuals. Let's take off 60% of that to account for multiple accounts will be banned shortly, new citizens that will go inactive and military units that do not pay into the tax system. That leaves a total of 618 citizens in Lithuania. Taking our average citizen's daily tax payments (3.90 LTL
) and the number of citizens that pay taxes (618), we will find out that the Lithuanian Government collects 2410.2 LTL every day in tax revenue (this number may be higher/lower depending on the actual average citizen). So, for each additional average worker Lithuania receives, it gets another 3.90 LTL
on average.

So, if you didn't read that block of text:
"Average Citizen"= 6.5 ES
"Average Wage" = 26.03 LTL

Lithuanian Income Tax Rate = 15%
Average Tax Burden = 3.90 LTL

40% of Total Residents = 618 people
Estimated Daily Tax Income of Lithuania* = 2410.2 LTL
( 120.51 Gold
)

So, getting to the point...

The article states that three prizes of 50 LTL will be given out three times a week. This means that you have a 0.0016% chance of winning the lottery and a 0.000000004096% chance of winning all three lotteries. Great odds right? However, in the process of that week... you will have paid 27.3 LTL
or 1.35 Gold
.

Boy! I'd love to sign up for one of these lotteries and work in Lithuania!

Not...




RW Subsidies

Hey! Get paid to fight? Sounds good to me! Right? WRONG.

.01 LTL
= 0.0005 Gold

10 Q5 Gifts = 1.50 Gold

10 Q5 Food = 0.55 Gold

105 Q1 Guns = 2.1 Gold

TOTAL COST = 4.15 Gold


4.15g / .0005g = 8,300,000 damage needed to cover this basic package.

Lithuania Org can either pay you .0005g for your damage, or give you a full pack costing them 5g. Which do you think they will do?



Company Offers

Lithuania Org is looking to pay 140g for a Q4 Company and 300g for a Q5 Company.

It costs 190g to make a Q4 Company. You would lose 50 Gold
. HOW IS THIS FREE MONEY?
It costs 390g to make a Q5 Company. You would lose 90 Gold
. HOW IS THIS FREE MONEY?

Who are you fooling?




Essentially that is all I have to say about that,

Sincerely,
OwenHargreaves

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