Fu Chen took out a pen and paper: "Alright, let's briefly draft two different proposals.
"The first one, as Cai Zhiyuan suggested, will be a more idealistic plan. Although it's highly unlikely to pass, it will help us further confirm the community's rules.
"And if by some chance it does pass, we'll have hit the jackpot.
"This proposal is... the community will issue 10,000 minutes of visa time to every community player each day, no, let's make it 1,000 minutes.
"10,000 minutes is too much, higher than the necessary 1,440 minutes per day, making the probability of failure even greater.
"In comparison, 1,000 minutes has a slightly higher chance of success. If the 1,000-minute proposal passes, we can propose a higher amount next time.
"If even the 1,000-minute proposal fails, then it's obvious this path is a complete dead end."
He looked up, saw no objections from the others, and then continued writing.
"The second proposal, we deduct 3,000 minutes of visa time daily from the three players with the most remaining visa time in the community and transfer it to the three players with the least remaining visa time."
Li Renshu quickly shook her head: "No, no, no, that's not appropriate.
"This is a bit like 'robbing the rich to help the poor,' it probably won't get more than half the votes, and at the very least, Wang Yongxin will definitely not agree."
Cai Zhiyuan didn't care: "So what if Wang Yongxin disagrees, we just need 7 votes.
"As long as the five of us reach a consensus, and then get two more votes from Uncle Ding, Aunt Su, or someone else outside our group, this plan can be implemented. We don't need Wang Yongxin's approval."
After speaking, he looked at Fu Chen.
However, Fu Chen remained silent for a moment, then crossed out his previous proposal.
"It's still best to get everyone's agreement, otherwise it's very likely to create unnecessary rifts."
He then looked at Lin Sizhi: "Lawyer Lin, what do you think?"
Everyone knew that in the previous game, Lin Sizhi and Wang Yongxin had profited the most, so if this plan were to be implemented, it would mean taking visa time from them.
Getting Lin Sizhi's consent was crucial.
Lin Sizhi pondered for a moment: "I also feel this plan isn't quite appropriate.
"It's not because I'm reluctant to part with 3,000 minutes of visa time a day, that's not a huge amount. It's mainly because I believe this plan is detrimental to the community's internal unity.
"To put it simply, this method of welfare provision is a bit too crude."
Fu Chen lowered his head and thought for a moment: "Hmm... perhaps you're right, I really don't have much good experience in this area.
"Then... are there any better plans?"
Li Renshu picked up the conversation: "What we need to do now is actually a redistribution of the visa time everyone has on hand, in other words, 'taxation.'
"To provide welfare for the entire community, we must first collect this portion of visa time before we can talk about redistribution.
"And the principle of taxation is to pluck the most feathers from the goose with the least amount of hissing.
"In other words, it's best if we levy it universally, rather than just plucking from the top three.
"Moreover, it's best if we use all the collected visa time to exchange for food and supplies for redistribution, instead of directly transferring the visa time to specific individuals.
"We are providing basic welfare, but we must not create a tendency to 'support the lazy.'"
Fu Chen contemplated for a moment, then crossed out his original plan on the paper a few more times: "Yes, that's indeed true."
What Li Renshu said wasn't hard to understand. Everyone present was smart and quickly grasped her meaning.
Taking visa time from the top three and directly transferring it to the bottom three was certainly a form of redistribution, but it was too crude and could easily cause dissatisfaction among many people.
The top three would definitely be dissatisfied because it was too targeted.
Those who were ranked slightly higher might also be dissatisfied, because they could become the top three in the future. This would make them hold back in future games, or even deliberately control their visa time balance.
Even those who were ranked lower, but not in the bottom three, would be dissatisfied.
Because they didn't have much visa time either, yet they couldn't benefit from this rule.
The bottom three would essentially be getting something for nothing, which goes beyond the scope of "minimum welfare."
Everyone's visa time is earned through their own hard work, and in the future, earning visa time might even involve risking their lives.
So, a distribution method that is too direct and crude is very likely to trigger collective opposition.
Li Renshu said: "I think we could do this.
"Let's calculate the approximate visa time needed to exchange for everyone's daily essential living supplies.
"For just eating, 80 minutes of visa time is enough.
"For 12 people, that's 960 minutes of visa time.
"The total visa time we earned from 'Blood Poker' seems to be... 1,055,500.
"0.1%.
"We only need to deduct 0.1% from the total visa time each day to cover everyone's essential living supplies.
"Of course, considering that visa time will naturally deplete over time, and issues like fault tolerance, there's still a lot of room to increase this number."
Li Renshu's calculation was rather rough, but generally correct.
Previously, the big screen had displayed the visa time each person obtained from 'Blood Poker,' and Li Renshu had already made a record of it at the time.
Fu Chen suddenly realized something: "Wait, the big screen said before that these chips would only be converted into each person's visa time after 24 hours.
"Is this also hinting to us that we can actually change the distribution method within 24 hours?
"How much time is left until the 24 hours are up?"
Cai Zhiyuan looked at the wall clock in the room: "A little over an hour."
Fu Chen nodded: "Then we need to hurry."
Li Renshu continued: "We can consider two methods:
"First, deduct based on each person's total visa time, deducting 0.1% daily, or 3% monthly.
"Second, deduct based on the visa time earned in each game. Assuming everyone plays at least one game per month, then based on the current rate of return, we only need to deduct a fixed 3% or 5% from the game earnings, which would be more than enough."
After a moment of consideration, the others said: "Then the latter option is better."
Although the first plan seemed decent, it could easily affect everyone's original spending plans.
Assuming a daily deduction of 0.2% or a monthly deduction of 6%, then for an individual player, the more they spent before the tax was deducted, the more advantageous it would be for them.
With the same 0.1% daily deduction, if a player's original balance was 100,000, 100 would be deducted; if they went on a spending spree the day before and reduced their balance to 80,000, then only 80 would be deducted.
This difference might seem insignificant, but among the 12 players, there were quite a few who were meticulous with their calculations.
If in the future, some players accumulate a large amount of visa time, far exceeding what's needed for daily life, they will inevitably use spending sprees to pay as little tax as possible.
Therefore, this method has certain flaws.
Although it might not be obvious initially, it could lead to a series of problems later on.
In comparison, deducting 3% from game earnings across the board after each game is more likely to gain the support of the majority.
After thinking for a moment, Cai Zhiyuan raised a new question: "But, this calculation that a fixed 3% deduction from game earnings can sustain basic living needs is based on one premise: that everyone plays at least one game per month, and also maintains the current rate of return.
"Do we need to specify this in the rules?
"Suppose some people, over the course of a month, not due to force majeure but out of personal willingness to be lazy, deliberately don't participate in games, should we also establish corresponding punitive measures?"
Li Renshu shook her head: "Let's not.
"Once such a rule is established, it means there will have to be someone specifically to judge the subjective intent of the offender, which could easily be used to make a mountain out of a molehill and stir up conflict.
"What's more, the welfare policy we're currently formulating only solves the problem of food, it doesn't cover the naturally depleting visa time each day.
"In other words, relying solely on the welfare policy is not enough to survive.
"When their visa time is about to run out, everyone will still go and participate in games, and try to earn as much visa time as possible. Therefore, the situation you're worried about is unlikely to happen.
"Of course, if you're worried that future games won't be able to maintain this rate of return and want to increase fault tolerance, we can raise this number to 5% or even higher."
After another round of simple discussion, Fu Chen finally settled on these two plans.