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Idea: wealth participation simulator

one thing I've noticed is that is really hard to explain people how salaries aren't the “horrible weight in the neck of our benevolent owners” and instead is the other way around. ​ so, I thought, what if we could make a game-ish visualization showing a company making a product and calculating what the work of each person contributes to the earnings. (and what their mental and physical state affects the whole, maybe?) ​ I mean, could as well be a full fledged factory simulator with that feature, what matters is to dispel the ideas that workers are a net weight on an operation instead of the very heart of it, and also the idea that raising salaries would create this horrible inflation pundits tend to preach about. ​ and it needs to be interactive, because people gets the idea better by trying things instead of being put on a…


one thing I've noticed is that is really hard to explain people how salaries aren't the “horrible weight in the neck of our benevolent owners” and instead is the other way around.

so, I thought, what if we could make a game-ish visualization showing a company making a product and calculating what the work of each person contributes to the earnings. (and what their mental and physical state affects the whole, maybe?)

I mean, could as well be a full fledged factory simulator with that feature, what matters is to dispel the ideas that workers are a net weight on an operation instead of the very heart of it, and also the idea that raising salaries would create this horrible inflation pundits tend to preach about.

and it needs to be interactive, because people gets the idea better by trying things instead of being put on a cart and shoved around. also, a simulator would be better for showing fairness, as in, the rules for the way we use the data would be empirically tested within the sim, so people can see we were fair and not lying to just push an agenda

background I'm an unemployed game artist and game designer, but can't code to save my life.

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