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In the days when tax was [almost nothing]%, flowers and bugs were 1g, and few items were over 1M gold on the marketplace, there was a stable economy. Now that the new CEO has taken over, and Gaia has become a greed-based vampire rudely throwing sex ads at us while enticing kids with GC to become instantly rich, they have to enact more and more gold sinks to supposedly control the inflation. All they are doing is managing what they are purposely causing. History of economics worldwide, both online and off, teaches us that the principles enacted here are engineered to give false confidence to bilk the users (public), destroy any real hope at user financial stability, and strangle the economy. The only significant difference here is that we can use an out-of-world currency to buy in-world currency. Combined with the gold generators, this economy continues to be stripped, and as long as Gaia is profiting from the sale of GC, it will continue. Look at the trend over the past 6 months, and you can see what they are doing. They profit, and the only way we have any hope of keeping up is to either work much harder or buy GC. And that is their goal — to squeeze away nonpaying users and force new users to pay or be perpetually poor. While I understand their business paradigm, they seek to expand and grow instead of just sustain. If they sustained and kept it a reasonably sized company with a respectful loyal user base, they would get steady GC and still could increase by adding quality to attract new users and retain veterans. Instead, Gaia has changed their business practices such that they ruined the economy, went against their promises to previous GC buyers, insult their users, and commercialize the entire site, driving their profit-greed sword into our bellies to the hilt. If you are sick and tired of Gaia's purposeful attack on its own economy, please reply below with your comments. Some say 5% tax is good, but any unchallenged tax increase only invites further encroachments. When it's 10% tax and flowers are 1 billion each, will you still be supporting their policies? As for me, I'm sick of it. What do you think?

They've lost control. Now they've just doomed the MP. From now on, it's all about the $$$.

Thanks for commenting, my friend. It's been all about the $$$ for many months, just gets worse and worse. I've ceased to be surprised at their shenanigans anymore.

This is the WORST Idea! IF they wanted to stop gaians from having an excess amount of money then they should never have put in money generators in the first place!! I am REALLY angry about them raising the taxes AGAIN on the mp.

I am NOT one of the people that could afford to donate 450 000 000 000 to that gaian run ball... And I don't like them making it even harder for us to get the items that we want for our avis. MAYBE they could try NOT making them limited addition and even possibly release the most favorite item that was from the chance sets for sale in the cash shop so people couldnt go bat poop crazy with inflation!

Listen.

Everyone in SF has been talking and talking about making change, fixing the site, bringing back a sense of community forever now.

Everyone wants gold removed from circulation because they don't want to deal with these insanely high MP prices.

So why anyone is upset about the MP tax increase is beyond me.

Is it that people don't want to deal with inflation, but also don't want to help at all? It seems to me that, among those who think the MP tax increase is a negative thing, the thinking at the root of it is, 'I don't want to lose any of MY gold, but I still hate inflation and wish it would go away!'

Personally, I would be happy if the tax were as high as 10%. (Not that I think it will go that far). In fact as soon as the increase takes effect to 5% I am purposefully vending more so that I get taxed. And then the profits? I'll put into gold sinks or buying Dernier Cri or Loyal's items and repeating, so it will also be putting more items into circulation.

Now that Gaia is taking the first step to trying to fix things, we Gaians need to do what we can to help too. And if you're STILL annoyed at the tax, just use the Exchange and make trades.

The richer the Gaian and the more insanely priced their items on MP, the more they will contribute to the gold sink and eventually, after YES a brief hike in prices, they will be forced to lower their prices because nobody will buy.

Those that consider themselves 'poorer' Gaians are hardly being harmed by the tax in the grand scheme of things.

YAY LOGIC!

everyone listen to the logic! o3o domokun stargate