| From: | Dragon <KAIT@****.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Corporate Script |
| Date: | Thu, 9 Sep 1993 16:28:12 -0600 |
>employees use its Corp. Scrip? Why? The explanantion in CSF (Corporate
>Shadowfiles acronym) is really IMO ascenine. The Corp. makes its money
>and pays its employees in there scrip. This then allows employees to
>buy items from the corp. stores at two times the cost of the item from
>the corp. The same items may sell for three times the cost of the
>item using regular moneys. In CSF they mention that this leads to a
>healthy market for markets to accept corp. scrip outside the corp. The
>market users can then buy corp. items at lower price using scrip. This
>supposedly costs the corp. (I don't see how, see below for explanation)
>This is the explanation in the book. But it don't wash.
The big reason is LACK OF CONTROL. Use of script give the little sarimen a
feeling of independence, yet lets the corp know just what is being consumed.
If just "anyone" was allowed to use script, then they have no idea who in their
arcologies is buying what. Meanewhile, i think you missunderstood something.
The corp isnt selling product to their employees at a cheaper than normal rate,
instead its at a higher than normal rate. But since the employee cant spend the
script anywhere other than the corp, he has no choice but to buy the product at
the prices they offer it. If anyone could use corp script, then the corp
wouldnt have any reason to use it. Employees could go and spend it anywhere.
The entire concept is like the company towns from the ameerican frontier,
where the ENTIRE economy was regulated and controled to ensure that A) the
company made as much of a profit as possible, B) that the people where kept as
happy as possible so long as it didnt interfer with A, since happy employees
insure A.
>
>1) The corp makes this money and gives it to employees as payment.
>There is only a small amount in circulation. ANd this amount is
>constant no matter if you outlaw the scrip use by non-employees.
>So making it illegal for non-employees to use scrip really does not
>change the overall pictures. If something is bought with the scrip
>it really is no difference from this view whether it was employee or
>non-employee. It all comes out in the wash.
Sure id doesnt matter who buys the corp product with the corp script, but for
the non-employee to get the corp script, he has to get it from someone first,
right? Well, jsut how did he get it? Illegally <yeah i know, but what other
word would you use?> or did an employee trade the script to the non-employee
for some product that the company doesnt know about like a gun, a spy device or
god forbid, non approved products that will cut the corp out of a 50 cent
profit!!!!! The entire concept behind the corporate script is to provide the
corp with as much security as possible. Consider that the corp could
concievably track EVERY bit of script that flies around their arcology. Thy
could map the entire socio-economics of thier happy little world.
Another potential reason for not letting anyone but employees use
script is a bit more sinester, and we all know that corps would never do
anything underhanded. "unlisenced" testing of products. Its perfectly legal in
corp territory, yet if some "questionable" product left the corp grounds and
injured someone, the company is liable. restricting use of script helps them
prevent such a loss of revanue. Shaky i know, but possible.
>
>2) By being extraterritorial corps. could use there scrip as a means
>of exchange. Considering how corps. like to perform arbitrage this
>would be another avenue where a corp. could clean up while also
>providing another service. Look at the companies like AT&T with there
>own credit departments. Abstract the thought to moneys and exchange
>rates, OH, clean up time.
>
>I am also trying to come up with a stock price and trade formula for
>my campaign. The price of stocks can, within minutes, ascend to
>ten times its value drop off the market then return to regular value,
>so trading can be very quick and hard. The price of the stock really,
>when talking about the second market (public), has nothing to do with
>the net rating of the corp. It is totally dependent on supply and
>demand in the market. So that is the problem in a nutshell. Where to
>start? Suggestions? Something random starting with public reputation
>and net rating as a good middle ground taking into accont number of
>shares, series differentiation, etc.
Same here, though i havent had the time or any success yet. If you, or anyone
else of course, do manage to come op with something, PLEASE POST IT!
>
>Suggestions, Comments?
>
>-- Quiktek
Thanks much here too....
Th Anderson
