We're starting a Holla Forums Socialist Mining corp on EVE Online.
Join the channel Holla Forums if you wanna join.
No matter how new you are you're welcome to join in.
Here's how it's gonna work, copy pasted from last thread - though the set up does require a benevolent dictator to not run away with everything, that's why it's being run by someone who's reputation would be on the line (Muke):
Basically, start a mining corp and have corp hangers. Have two wallets as well - one for all the corp's money, one for the members.
All members put the products of their mining into the corp hangers and then this can be hauled and sold off together, the profits being put into the corp wallet.
You can then use this money to do things. Firstly, buy better ships for the members (who gets what and when is determined by the members, unless they're newbies and dont even know the difference between an exhummer and a barge) and then you can also put some money into the member corp wallet, in which all members can take from. This means the members themselves have access to a pool of isk for general things they need, it's size depending on their own productivity, but the main bulk of the corp's money isnt open to be stolen by simply anyone.
As the corp grows larger, you can begin to implement more layers of the wallet, more trusted members having access to higher levels which in turn have more isk, and they can also help with filling other divisions of the corp wallet for members, and you just keep pooling the fruit's of everyone's labour together through the corp hangers.
To top it all off, make sure all the decisions are made by the members democratically.
So this is, of course, dependant on the benevolent dictatorship of the owner of the corp. There is no way around this due to the way the game is made, which sucks. You can try do some fancy stuff with shares, but at the end of the day, if you're trying to vote out the CEO with those shares, they have plenty of time to take anything of value from the corp if they want.
If you wanna give this a try though, I'm down. I've done it on small scales before, and it's really fun, you get a great feeling of working as a team and when things really get rolling you actually have access to a surprisingly large pool or resources all together.
If you do the member wallet amount say, percentage based, this means if someone were to take all of the isk inside, you know how much you've lost and you know you can replace it. Furthermore though, before you replace it and hope you dont lose it a second time, EVE will allow you to see through the wallet it's self but also API checks who has taken the isk and when, as well as items as well from corp hanger checks and again the API. This means you can see exactly who has what and who's taking what, so if someone does decide to steal all they can, provided they don't have too many roles, they will be promptly kicked and your operations as a corp haven't been hindered too much.
