I like talking about stocks and the market. Hell, even my player’s twitter profile says “Stonks” on the description. And as a super biased player writing an answer for this hypothetical prompt, stocks are the answer. It will probably be near impossible to implement, but imagine buying and selling stock on teams or players. ISFL team is tanking, but you think they’ll draft well? Put some of your player salary into shares of that team. As they win more games and become more valuable, more players will buy that team’s stock and the price will go up. Buy low, sell high. This idea will not really reduce money in the economy, more so just move it around in a circle since it would be a zero sum game in the ISFL and DSFL bubble. Teams could declare their company as going public and let investors buy shares to raise short term capital the team could use to sign their next max contract player while the investors reap the benefits of profiting (hopefully) on that team’s success. Is it likely to happen? No. Is it fun to think about and could potentially spark the idea of a better system to take money out of circulation? Absolutely. And in the off chance something like this does exist, I’ll be back here again typing about creating an options contracts economy.
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