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5062101
Thanks!
a Cup of coffe, butter bread and a new chapter of the chase, you´re fic worked itself into my morning Routine.
You know...after everything that has happened I completely forgot that Bucky used to be an accountant...
You sir deserve a moustache.
The Boss Adventures of Bucky and Sentinel.
I never imagined a return to Bucky's roots like this and i never imagined Twilight finding such behavior that funny. I loved it.
Most hilarious chapter.
Here is the closest representation of Bucky doing accounting I could find:
Yep. Sentinel, my boy...I want you to record all that you heard your father say, write it down, set it in a way that's easy to the casual reader's eye, and send it in to your mutual friend you correspond your letters with.
This is gold, kid. You're basking in the glow of financial brilliance.
There's your typo, can I have a cookie?
needed?
Really, ignore me if i'm wrong.
English education standards in china is LOW.
Like others, I had actually forgotten Bucky was an accountant... now he is an accountant with goals, confidence, and a zero bull shit policy. Already he inflicts terror on bureaucracy with his efficiency.
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Twilight: Am I going to have to come in and organise ya?
Bucky: Don't make me go over your budget...
Twilight: Yeah... we don't do things the old way. We get stuff done.
Bucky: Sentinel, fetch me my pen.
Twilight: You brought this upon yourself... just cooperate, things will go so much better if you just cooperate.
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Oh, I agree it's important. I'm just saying I can see ruffled feathers. It is a bit of a snub, after all. Especially due to the way they're phrasing it. Instead of, "We can handle keeping crime down ourselves, no need to trouble the Guard." It's, "We need to protect ourselves from the Guard." Therein lies the whole aura of distrust of people who laid down their lives for you. I mean, if I'd watched my friends die to keep some civilians safe, and now spend my days away from my family continuing to protect them from outside threats and from themselves... I'm going to be a bit skeeved off when they basically dismiss me and put shields in between me and themselves.
Picture that for yourself, I mean. In that sort of position, even if you're happy they can protect themselves, wouldn't it feel like those sacrifices were being disrespected by the way they're handling it?
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The guard have far more important things to, like securing the borders.
I can see it as a bit of relief. No more foal sitting and getting back to what is important.
But I can see the other side of it as well
Man, he accounts payabooed ALL that shit. H-Dog, don't be hatin'.
Yes! Yes! Gut the beast that is bureaucracy. Feast on its entrails! Really, they should be liquidating the wealth of those who exist too far above their natural means and redistributing it to the town. Take the -one- chance you'll have to close the gap between rich and poor for good. There is no good reason for them to have that much wealth, especially since they were having MORE wealth wasted on them that was collected from the poor, in order to maintain something as unimportant as appearance of their personal property.
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A lot of the wealthy have been gutted. Like Filthy Rich. He's lost everything after the banks collapsed. Any bits kept in the bank were lost forever. Any "virtual money" that was not hard on hoof assets.
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Aye, but they all should be. What point is there to hoarding undue wealth, more than what one can use for themselves and family, and a stock for emergencies? With everyone sick and starving like this, it's only natural to remove their unnecessary wealth and use it to help everyone. Instead of... beautification of their personal lands. e.e
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As a socialist... I kinda agree.
Bucky took a page from Dinky's book: Don't get bored, get results.
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Aye. If the others start dying off or are too sick to work, then honestly - where will they continue to get their money from anyway? It's in their best interests to let go of their wealth now, or there won't be anyone to exploit like the leeches they are. In fact, put all of them to work, too. This is a disaster, this isn't some highly established peacetime where a quick tongue and flash of cash can buy lives and towns. This is survival. Money is useless except where it can be used to help ensure survival of the populace. Living is all that matters. If you die, you lose.
Did I miss the moment when Bucky found a death note?
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Death Note acquired. (Any large-scale budget planner is pretty much a Death Note!)
...well, I never imagined the mayor could be like that. Maybe a change in leadership in Ponyville is needed?
Fillydelhpia is already a smoking hole in the ground. I'm just taking this as it comes now.
Kudz my man... i love you
only you could write a chapter about accounting and make it this epic.
it's buckys natural talent that we all forgot, but now his back. the night terror of all ponyvilles accountants, he will slay them all with his black pen of DOOM.
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Yes let's take there money, it's not fair that they have more! Hey that family has more food than they can eat in one year let's take some of that too, OMG that family has more kids, let's take one and put him to work for the betterment of society.
The problem with those ideals is that it's never enough, people always want more than they have and it isn't fair if someone has more. There are always going to be a disparity between people because of any number of reasons but it's wrong for ANYONE to step in and say YOU have too much give some back. No matter what the intent or the justification is going down that path is wrong, it's akin to stealing.
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It's not about what people want. With survival, it's about needs. Wants lead to people who are unduly wealthy, because most people are weak-willed and greedy. They have more, while others have nothing or even less. Why should they get to hoard what they do not need while others around them die off? Why should the many sacrifice and suffer and die for the few?
It's not wrong, and it's not stealing. If that's the case, taxes are stealing. "You have something, therefore you must give part of it up. No matter how little you have. If you have nothing, you might as well just die because that's what's going to happen to you anyway." Taxes are also a redistribution of wealth, the exact thing I am speaking of.
You only speak from the perspective of it's wrong to redistribute the wealth of those who have too much. When from a logical AND ethical perspective, that's just the bias we were brainwashed with in today's society.
Have you ever starved? I mean truly starved, not merely gone without food for a day or two. When you can feel your body digesting itself and drawing on every last store of energy inside of it to sustain you as you sit about in ungodly pain slowly dying. When right next door someone is sat at a table with expensive foods and snacks, eating off of fine plates while his lands are tended to with public money, hoarding more than he could ever have a use for. Tell me then that it's wrong. Tell me then that it's stealing. With every spasm of your body, every dry heave, lying awake every night knowing you can't sleep until you pass out from exhaustion because you can feel yourself being eaten from the inside out. Tell me that dying while someone who can help wipes his mouth with your salvation is the right thing to do.
Or would you cling to these broken, useless morals only fit for a society where all are meant to be wealthy and always with opportunity to grasp that wealth for themselves, cling to it while your family withers before you? Watching your children suffer and cry out for you until their bodies are no longer capable of producing tears. Your spouse? Your parents? Can you tell them to just sit there and take it while Moneybags has a larder with enough food to feed two families for a month, and the capital in his pocket alone to feed a quarter of your town or see to it that they have medicines?
You're telling me it's alright for people who have profited from the suffering and sacrifices of others to ignore those same people while they live amongst them and want for nothing? That it's fair? That people should die because the rich 'deserve' to stay rich? Do you even have experience in this matter to speak on?
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Mr. Rich is owner and operator of Barnyard bargins, a chain of stores that provides goods and services, it also employs several ponies who are low income but obviously able to manage on their own. Mr. Rich's wealth comes from hard work and dedication to managing these stores and allows him the ability to open more stores creating new jobs. His wealth also allows his stores the ability to survive an economic collapse, where many stores will no doubt be operating in the red since sales will be down while employees wages as well as product costs will still need to be accounted for. Many owners will dip into personal savings as well as juggle finances to keep operating. If we take his welth, as well as the wealth of other business owners, many ponies will lose their jobs as business go insolvent. It won't help the situation if they get a few more bits only to lose their jobs.
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Last I checked, he has no wealth as it stands. Your... example, if we can call it that, is flawed. That would be wealth that is tied up in the business. Not wealth that he was hoarding. Wealth that is tied up in the business is not cash in pocket. A man in rags can run a highly successful business and host many employees. Case in point, Bucky's about to do that. He's about to create jobs with the money he's receiving from being royalty. But we also see Bucky distributing that wealth to others after making sure his family is taken care of. So far they have not shown to live in excess.
Yet those in Ponyville who remained rich? They had the town's finances paying for their beautification upkeep. Tell me you see the difference.
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Do not cry to me about starving, my parents made hard choices too. We chose to stay financially independent, not relying on credit, or the charity of social assistance. We managed to scrape by as a family making sacrifices for what we believed is right. Now days I see families crying about not having enough to eat while their kid plays on his ipad. My sister in law was unemployed for a year after school because of the ression, but when she went to apply for the medical assistance she was too rich to qualify since she had 10 thousand in savings. Funny thing was that wouldn't last her 3 months for the treatment she needed. Why are the wealthy to blame for all the ills in the world? Because they have something that you dont? It doesn't matter if it's food, water, or a stupid I Pad. If you take it because you want it it's stealing. Don't get me started about TAX. Taxes are for operating the government, not stupid social programs. Feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, non profits do this better than any government has ever done. It is up to society to take care of its weak and helpless, but if we step in and star dictating how it should be it becomes something corrupt, no longer is it about helping those in need it becomes about keeping the rich down.
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And like I said, this is the bias instilled by the society in which we were raised. For future notes, 'hard choices' and 'actually in the process of dying in agonizing and mind-warping pain' are two very different things. Don't try to compare the two, if you've any sense of severity. Having a choice to make is more than many of us have had at some points in our lives. Making us all the more grateful for what little we've managed to get back. The ability to pay bills by itself is a blessing as much as one might want for more. You've proven you can't actually understand the issue at hand. Though your heart is in the right place with wanting to keep a system free from corruption, you decried the wrong thing as corrupt and voiced the opinions of a hoarder-apologist.
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And I say the vilification of the rich is a bias jealousy of what you don't have. And while I have never starved, I have had to live without power, without water, medical bills so high we could barely afford clothes. While understand hating those who had the latest toys, video games, it wasn't their fault we were poor. If they gave me toys or games would that have changes anything? Redistribution of welth changes nothing. It's a quick fix that only serves to push the top down but does nothing to lift up the bottom. It fixes nothing.
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It was never about jealousy. That is the assumption you created to falsely justify your viewpoint. If anyone is against hoarding, they must be jealous, correct? You don't have to answer that, you've already done so admirably with your... opinion, in the last post. You also proved that you don't know what it's like to be truly poor while someone truly rich is right nearby giving you the stink-eye - to have to bury a good friend because he couldn't afford relatively cheap medicine - to watch his family waste away because they couldn't afford the funeral expenses. There's a harder world than you've lived, invisible to those who are too caught up in their own worries and their own sense of righteousness to see what's actually wrong with the world. Using factoids handed down to them from above as sensibility and truth to justify their own poor lot while looking away from those who have it worse. My viewpoint on you has been entirely drafted from what you have said and the way you've used your choice in words, not baseless assumptions - unlike yours on myself. You might want to look into that. Even now that I've grown up, and can scrape together enough to pay bills and live in a house, and get to eat stale bread every other day - do you know what I do? I still give what I can to those around me who have less, and make myself available to aid those neighbors I haven't had to draw my pistol on for trying to harm my family. You lack experience here. If a poor man can do that, then why not a rich man?
Have you anything of value to say to me, or wish to return to intelligent discourse over the living standards of Ponyville instead of sniping my experiences, PM me that we might not bother Kudzu or his readership. A subject continuing from this point is too deeply struck to be held here in the open.
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Well if we're talking about the ponies of Ponyville, what is needed is for the welthy to spend their money. If we take it from them and give it to the poor all that will do is drive up inflation, drive down suply, and most likely kill jobs. Now that they have to pay for their own services maybe it will create some jobs.
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Not give it to the poor. I don't mean just hand it to them and say here buy whatever. But there's a shortage of food and likely medicines at this point, judging from the story. That is something the town can use the money for to buy from providers. Until Bucky got involved, the town's wealth collected from the ponies living in it was being horribly wasted, and in the favor of those who already had plenty more than they need. How many would have not had to suffer if, before this point, the rich had opened their coffers to provide food and assist with crisis relief efforts? If they won't assist others in the time of most desperate need, then they never will except when it benefits them.
In which case, those who are suffering and dying take priority over some uppity rich prat up in his big house with sacks of gold complaining that it's his money and no one can have any.
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The reason there is a food shortage isn't because there is a lack of funds. The Infrastructure has collapsed, railroads aren't running, farms are not operating at sufficient levels, and the only thing keeping what is there alive are the rich. Without the railroad tycoon the lines will fall out of service, without the merchant traders supplies from out of country have to be handled by the government. Private business can operate more efficiently than government offices since they are holden unto their bottom line rather than keeping three government bureaucrats employed.
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I already mentioned the differences in those who hoard wealth (the rich), and simply those who handle business and the transactions thereof. This was addressed already. Everything was addressed already. There is no further point to this. You believe that in a crisis, those who hoard wealth they do not use are under no obligation to help their fellows and can sit back and listen to the sounds of suffering while those who can obligate them sit on their hands and refuse to do so.
You won't change this apologist view for whatever reason. I can respect someone having a different opinion - but I will argue when someone tries to pass off an opinion as what's right in the situation. Since this is not going anywhere, give it peace and let it rest.
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I can't let that pass, you opinion that the rich holders are to blame for some injustice. The value of money has no barring here since no pony can eat bits. All the welth does is allow ponies to keep the local market flowing. You assume that the wealthy ponies money will somehow magically grow food or provide goods, but all that money will do is go into the pocket of some other pony who is most likely wealthy. What hording wealth does is hold promise for their future after the crisis, that they can provide for themselves after things return to normal. So what if they have 100 bits saved up or a million, who has the right to decide what will be necessary in the future. The crown has made due with what it has. Bucky has shown how to do it, how will taking more from others make the government more efficient? The wealthy are ponies too and though they have more bits then they need right doesn't negate the fact that means exactly squat. You make a distinction between ponies who are trying to better things and the needlessly wealthy. But I say you can't target one without the other. What makes ones wealth needless or not? It can't be quantified.
5062724 your profile pic looks like it's 3D.
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Thanks for playing nice.
Mister Rich has no real wealth now. Not anymore. Any money left in banks is now gone. The banks were all operating with virtual money, lending out far more than they really had and the vaults stayed empty.
New chapter coming soonish with a few hints.
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See the government alredy has the money. It's like black friday, nothing to back the promise of capital. The only ponies now who have money are the crazy smart ponies who hid their bits in their mattress and those who liquidated assets. Taking from them would be like saying since you were silly enough to avoid the economic downturn you need to be punished.
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if 100 years from now, Sentinel's letters are taught in history class. I can just see young foals now reading them and writing essays about the social issues they addressed at the time, the ponies mentioned in them, and the impact they had.
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This is true. But the wealthy still have some assets. Stockpiled gemstones, bits, valuable stuff, silverware made of actual silver, etc. Well, some wealthy people.
Much of Equestria is using the bartering system right now. There is an effort to get people using bits again. The Farmer's Union of Ponyville for example prefers bartering and because the union they have, they have collective bargaining.
Which makes them fierce.
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Yes assets are of course a hedge against poverty, I know that part of the reason a wedding ring has to be three months Income. In case you have to sell it to get by. I wonder if this crisis helped stabilize the volatile gem market.
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Rarity is fabulously wealthy still.
And Sparkler can actually conjure gems. No telling where Sparkler gets those gems.
The vaults go empty.
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Lol, it's funny luxury items such as gems and jewelry are a hedge against future economic collapse. But only with a promise of future economic growth. The only people looking to buy silverware and Crystal China would be the wealthy. If the future held less promise of there being a wealthy class then such items would loose value.
But enough economical ideology, lets discuss Politics! I say a representative democracy was definitely the way to go, and I support the Sentinel and the Filly bits party.
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It is a filly bits party... and everypony is coming.
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Don't forget. Gems and crystals are needed for magical items. So they will always have a value.
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Ahh yes, one tends to forget that the precious metals also are the most conductive. Is that true for magical conductivity as well? As it stands equestria could melt down its currency and use it to build an electric power infrastructure for its new electrical inventions.
God damn, Bucky! The US Treasury Department could use you right now.
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What you did there, I can see it.