[HCoop-Discuss] comments on payment schemes

[Justin S. Leitgeb]

Adam Chlipala wrote:

>No, our capacity choices for the new scheme are based on projections of 
>likely membership size in the next few years.  We will be underutilizing 
>what we set up, so the actual usage of any particular member will be 
>trivial compared to all of the resources available.  I think the amount 
>of unused resources will be several times larger than the amount of used 
>resources, meaning that any costs assigned based on real usage will be 
>insignificant compared to the remaining cost of unused stuff.  Now what 
>to do with the rest?  Ideally (and with the laws of physics tweaked), we 
>would charge them to future users now, but, since we can't do that, 
>splitting mostly evenly among current members seems reasonable, 
>_especially_ given the _tiny_ cost of an even share of the $750/mo. with 
>our current membership size.
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>

Practically and philosophically, I also think that splitting costs, more 
or less evenly among members, is the best way to go.

Justin