[Moo] [abhainniarthair] SCA membership fees increase

[Dante di Pietro]

It's eight bucks. Big whoop.
On Dec 4, 2010 9:46 PM, "Maven" <sk8maven at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've got just two words for the Board of Directors. The first one is
unprintable
> and the second is "YOU!"
>
> Duke Cariadoc warned us more than twenty years ago that one big
centralized
> membership fund is just one big honeypot for lawyers. Now here we are,
proving
> the truth of his thesis.
>
> We have also found out by catastrophic experience that the "insurance"
that the
> SCA, Inc. was founded to provide is completely worthless. ONE scumbag in
ONE
> group in ONE kingdom, who wasn't even perpetrating his vices AT SCA
events, has
> ruined the whole game for everyone. That's what centralization can do.
>
> I think we need to dis-incorporate and radically decentralize. No more
BOD. No
> more Corpora. No more big central honeypot. No more "insurance" that isn't
worth
> the paper it's printed on. It's going to happen anyway, as the BOD keeps
jacking
> the membership rates into the stratosphere to cover their incompetence and

> misfeasance, and people start refusing to pay extortionate rates,
triggering a
> vicious spiral that can only end in the destruction of the SCA. Inc.
>
> Best we start now, before things completely fall apart, to plan what will
take
> its place. The BOD needs us far more than we ever needed them - without us

> they're nothing, but without them, we still have each other and our game.
And
> maybe we can write saner, less exploitative rules.
>
> This HAD to blow up just when I was starting to think that it might be in
the
> best interests of Abhainn Iarthair to reinstate my membership. Wretchedly
bad
> timing on the BOD's part, to remind me why I hate them so much.
>
> With apologies for a rant,
> Medhbhin (Maven) / B Helms
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