The proposals are still voted in, so it's still "democratic"... The only difference is the shareholders aren't directly paying for it through dilution. No dilution and a new feature is no doubt good for the price. The committee should control the fee so bitshares still has control over the feature, and also just for UI purposes I think the FBA should be listed next to the proposal with the total value, but other than those criticisms, I just see it as more money and features for all of us.
No it is not, maybe on literal sense of the word, but this is type of the wrong use of democracy that permits you to trick the system to vote in something hiding the costs. The stealth proposal for instance, CNX tried to pass this proposal charging something to do the job and fail. Then instead of discuss with the community and understand what was not working, they just made other proposal hiding the same costs or more so the people that do not understand right can vote for a future larger loss in revenue. If you have any doubt about this just read the comments on both proposal and you will find something like this: "just $300 dollars? let's do it".
To someone of communist mindset this FBA is offensive.
The FBA is born out of a capitalist methodology, and so those who agree in some way with capitalism they will be agreeable with the FBA.
Fact is that not everyone in the world agrees with capitalism and therefore will argue up and down over every point about the FBA because it is another departure from a purely socialized feature of BitShares.
I think what you are seeing in this thread is that clash.
However, if you look at how the FBA has been setup, I believe that there has been a good attempt at taking the best of both worlds of thought to create something new and stronger than one ideal or the other that stand alone. If it really works the way it should or not once implemented is another story.
Good news though, we can always vote to make improvements.
Until then though, discussions like this of throwing the baby with the bathwater don't go in the right direction.
Creating new innovations like FBA are exactly what we should be aspiring to do in BitShares.
I am as capitalist as you are or more, I just think is better for us to have only one token to not incentivise people trying to push one feature over other but the system as a whole.