Aha! I had thought of the nicer room issue, as settled by Georgism, before. Even tried using it to explain Georgism to a friend. I hadn’t applied it to chores! This is great. It reminds of an oft employed board game mechanic where, after everyone has chosen squares on a board, you place resources on unchosen squares on a board as an incentive to choose those squares in subsequent turns. Those extra resources pile up on the undesirable squares until someone selects that square.
Interesting! Now that you mention it, I think I have seen something like this in a card game before. Century: Spice Road, where the pickup cards accumulate more resources the longer people ignore them. It's a useful mechanic for keeping the pickup card options fresh. Now I'm curious what it would be like to live in a house with a bunch of game designers. They'd be the experts of incentive engineering.
Aha! I had thought of the nicer room issue, as settled by Georgism, before. Even tried using it to explain Georgism to a friend. I hadn’t applied it to chores! This is great. It reminds of an oft employed board game mechanic where, after everyone has chosen squares on a board, you place resources on unchosen squares on a board as an incentive to choose those squares in subsequent turns. Those extra resources pile up on the undesirable squares until someone selects that square.
Interesting! Now that you mention it, I think I have seen something like this in a card game before. Century: Spice Road, where the pickup cards accumulate more resources the longer people ignore them. It's a useful mechanic for keeping the pickup card options fresh. Now I'm curious what it would be like to live in a house with a bunch of game designers. They'd be the experts of incentive engineering.