[Moo] [abhainniarthair] SCA membership fees increase

[Janie Darby]

I'd just like to point out that the BoD is composed of members of the SCA,
every one of whom is a Peer, who are volunteers chosen, in part, for their
mundane skillsets. They include people whom we know and play with - two
Atlantians in the current membership, I believe. These are not people out to
exploit us. They are people trying their best to deal with a difficult and
unfortunate situation.

I am not going to get into the debate over whether we should decentralize. I
think it is important, however, to remember that the BoD is, in reality,
part of "us", not the typical corporate "them" when we cast aspersions.

Baroness Briana Maclukas

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Dante di Pietro
<dante.di.pietro at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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