J Feng 🌕

233 billion LUNC voted Yes. That does not mean the community is against builders. It means people have listened to the same warning for four years and no longer accept it as fact. We were told that reducing the tax would attract developers, dApps and volume. So the 1.2% tax was quickly reduced to 0.2%, and later changed to 0.5%. Four years have passed. Where are the results? We did not see the wave of useful products and meaningful activity that was promised. What we mostly got were small games, NFTs, meme coins and new token launches that created noise for a while but very little lasting demand. Some projects were far better at marketing and raising money than bringing value to Terra Classic. Yet the tax is still blamed for everything. The truth is simple: people use a product because it is useful, interesting, fun or gives them a real opportunity to earn. A good product creates its own demand. A bad product does not suddenly become successful because the tax is 0.2% instead of 1.2%. I am also a builder. I have created some dApps, and I want to keep making them better, more polished and more useful. I want them to bring convenience and real earning opportunities to users. The tax has never stopped me from building, and I have never seen it as the real problem. That is why I do not understand how you can keep speaking as if this tax will destroy builders while never explaining exactly what it prevents Ceramic from doing. Which part of Ceramic becomes impossible because of an additional 1%? Which part of its model stops working? I know work has been done on Ceramic, and I am not denying that. But Ceramic has also been discussed for years, and the measurable result that would prove its core theory is correct has still not arrived. Until then, it remains a theory too. You are free to believe in your theory, just as others are free to believe in the burn tax. But until Ceramic delivers measurable results, you are in no position to speak as if your theory has already been proven and everyone else is simply wrong. None of us is a saint. None of us is the final economic authority on Terra Classic. Confidence, complicated models and long explanations do not prove anything by themselves. We are not trying to rob users or punish builders. We are correcting a decision made four years ago and restoring a burn tax that was never given a fair chance. The community has heard both sides. 233 billion LUNC chose Yes. Results decide who was right. Not who wrote the longest explanation.