Went through details.md. I love it. I've thought about these problems before as well. How can we enable constructive debates in an open forum through financial incentives.

There was this idea I was exploring too. #nostrbates or #zappedebates i.e., Nostr Debates.

Here's the note i was drafting:

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I'm creating this to initiate interesting conversations on Nostr about important topics in the world. And we need to store this information well, as its precious knowledge. Can’t let these discussions go to waste.

Let’s begin.

First topic: Real estate property taxes are the only kind of taxes we should have in a city. Everything else is pay to use.

Here we debate this topic with #for and #against

While replying, start with #for or #against and make your argument.

Here's my take:

#for. This aligns the incentives for the city runners to develop the area they govern with security. They're basically providing security of that land to you. They have built the roads in that area and they sell you the water you use as well.

For this to be true and for us to achieve such a free market here, this one assumption must hold true(or come true): the cost of switching should become close to zero(maybe the city you're moving to will subsidize your switching costs).

There's no need for income tax, sales tax, capital gains tax, no bullshit. Just the tax for your IRL security and the security of the land you lease. That's right. Land ownership doesn't make sense either. You can lease it for years or decades. The reason? You truly own anything that you can defend yourself with your own strength. Your country truly owns your land and it has made certain promises to you that you "own" your land on paper. But, if the country falls, you own nothing. IMO, they're giving away their most precious resource for cheap. They own the rivers as well. Your water. This "they" can become communal ownership. This is democracy.

Amenities: you just pay for amenities as a bundle. Water, electricity, gas, everything is bundled and you can choose your bundle.

Roads: this is a tricky part. If you own a car, you pay more vs a cycle owner vs a pedestrian. Various cities can have different models. A city can have no road tax at all but maintain fantastic roads to see appreciation in its real estate prices, which inturn brings in more property taxes.

I'll stop here.

Rules:

1. Please zap the arguments you like the most so that more people see it.

2. #for and #against arguments are sorted together based on most zapped

3. There is a zap tax of 15% to disincentivize zapping yourself with another account. This goes to the host of the debate. (Had some ideas to have this work in the initial version before clients adopt this through an NIP)

We plan to store these debates in a knowledge base of topics as an archive for future nostriches to look at.

Debate away!

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Hey Laminal, i'd love to work on this with you.