Funding the Hockay Accessibility and Beginner Subvention

Hockay costs nothing to join, and that remains the best thing about it. But joining and arriving are not the same thing. I came in wearing MTL before the first puck ever dropped, and I have watched the ledgers grow since Season One, mostly in the same hands. A player who registers tomorrow inherits none of that history. They inherit the odds.

i-am-tom demonstrated something in Season One that I have not stopped thinking about since: that a fortune in this league is more interesting when it moves. The wealth tax takes. The dormancy petition takes. Both are correct and both are involuntary, which means neither of them is generosity. What we have never had is a mechanism for a fan to look at a number they accumulated by being early and decide, freely, to spend it on someone who was not.

Be it therefore proposed that Le Council establish the Hockay Accessibility and Beginner Subvention, a standing fund with no levy attached to it. Every newly registered account draws a one-time opening stake from the fund, wagerable immediately and owed to no one. This can also be used to increase the daily reward amount to help fight the inflation in Hockay activities

The fund is capitalized entirely by voluntary contribution from the citizenry, in any amount, at any time. Contributors are recorded in a public ledger, which is the whole of the reward and should be enough.

I am opening the fund with Ⱡ150,000,000 of my own. I did not earn it by being clever. I earned it by sheer luck and stupidity. I would love to see it sat in the hands of someone still learning what a modifier does than sit in mine doing nothing at all. Montreal named its hockey team after the habitants, the people who worked the land rather than the ones who owned it, and the name stuck because it was accurate.

A league of forty-eight teams and eleven wealthy speculators is not a league. It is a museum with a betting window. I am calling on every fan who has more Looneys than they have use for to add their name and their share, and I would be glad to be outdone.