Indigo to Teal

i dunno if decency is genetic

I think “credit auctions except for blues” is a good system. I agree with all the normal arguments for that- ability to earn money is a good proxy for usefulness for most castes, but for blues getting rich depends more on being corrupt or lucky than on being good at serving the public.

In the Oahk Empire, where all credits were granted by the emperor, there were constant "rebellions" and "treason" that were fabricated so that the "discoverer" would get credit, and thus credits. The "culprits" were almost always put to death, generally in large numbers.

So, consider: when credits are at stake, blues empirically will arrange for mass murder and risk their own lives for a better chance.

Consider also: In Oahk (and some modern permissions countries, but let's just speak ill of the dead for the moment), greens were rewarded for getting advanced degrees and various easily documented milestones, rather than achieving anything of actual value. They proceeded to get endless degrees in various subjects, because credits were more important than progress.

Putting these together, here’s what you should expect to fall out, under your proposal:

Figuratively-cutthroat politics will become much more literal. Poisoning, assassination, hostage-taking, blackmail, you name it. To the exclusion of good governance. If the positions are elected, then expect massive systematic voter fraud, bribery and brazen vote-buying. (Also short-term-good, long-term-harmful populist policy.)

he sentenced them to have to touch an ex-red

and like, a lot of people are defending this by saying that dueling is a cultural thing in ereith? as if that makes it better? “congratulations, this is not a singular case, people die all the time for having angered someone more powerful!”

and yeah i saw the video of someone insulting the king and the king being fine. this is obviously not proof of anything, from the video it seems like either they know each other or it was set up as a pr thing, in either case it tells us nothing about how the king would react to a rando insulting him??? and tbh the fact that this starfireskyglass person would put up an obviously faked/misleading video as “proof” makes me super suspicious of anything else they have to say, like they’ve made several posts “explaining” that according to ereithani culture that blue could’ve backed out and not been in trouble but they’re the only person i could find saying this? so it might’ve been partly made up as a backtracking thing when they saw the backlash, we don’t know

hey colours do you wanna go swear at a king to prove a point

and like, a lot of people are defending this by saying that dueling is a cultural thing in ereith? as if that makes it better? “congratulations, this is not a singular case, people die all the time for having angered someone more powerful!”

and yeah i saw the video of someone insulting the king and the king being fine. this is obviously not proof of anything, from the video it seems like either they know each other or it was set up as a pr thing, in either case it tells us nothing about how the king would react to a rando insulting him??? and tbh the fact that this starfireskyglass person would put up an obviously faked/misleading video as “proof” makes me super suspicious of anything else they have to say, like they’ve made several posts “explaining” that according to ereithani culture that blue could’ve backed out and not been in trouble but they’re the only person i could find saying this? so it might’ve been partly made up as a backtracking thing when they saw the backlash, we don’t know

hey colours do you wanna go swear at a king to prove a point