Lobbying System is born - It needs Rules and Transparency

The risk is real, Anshe, but it is not always impossible to predict. Like GOM, you have already had many months of warning that LL is unhappy with the huge tier discount (doesn't a sim owner pay tier at only about half the rate of the smallest owners) and is considering drastically reducing it, or even eliminating it.

Since it is this very discount that makes many aspects of your own business viable, you must surely regard yourself as on notice of a huge difficulty close over the horizon.

Just because you have chosen to make yourself so vulnerable to this does not mean that LL (and therefore in reality the rest of us) should compensate you when the well-predicted, pre-notified sky falls. There is no reward without risk. It is your willingness to take the risk that separates you from the tourists, and in part justifies (and it does) the income you are earning from the rest of us.

This does not mean that LL should damage any business flippantly, without a counterbalancing wider good. Thus the current land price and exchange rate slides are reprehensible, they serve no wider good, and LL should act to provide fiscal stability, as a true government does.