My last post I finished with the question: “Why I became a resident now, nearly 4 years after signing up?” Recently I got an email from Asgardia. It was Asgardia´s birthday. I was close to just deleting it, but then I decided to enter the system in order to cancel my account. After entering, I needed to find my way and ended up reading some of the documents, among them the Asgardia budget for 2020. After looking at the budget I had a lot of questions, e.g. how to achieve the targets set, with this kind of financial limitations? There was another comment I bumped in, a call for the “Parliament by-election” I scrolled through some pages of the candidates & reading the “why you should vote for me”. Most of the candidates were just sharing their dreams. It is fine, everyone should dream (big). But for my taste I missed clear statements about what they wanted to do, in case they got elected. This is no surprise. The big Asgardian dream is an incredibly huge challenge. It will need many genius humans in order to make even a small step forward. But just when I was about to stop, I found a candidate who was offering some ideas what to actually do in case the chance was there. I ended up consuming all the papers of the other parliament candidates. Indeed there were a handful of them which seemed to do more than dreaming. Of course this is not a guarantee to success, but it is always worth a try! So I thought why not give them my vote. This answers my original question: I became a resident to support a handful of candidates (5). Maybe I will find some more in the remaining days. I do not necessarily agree to all the agenda of these candidates, but I like the idea of having a plan and working on it, clear and simple steps forward. Failing, communicating the failure and learning out of failure is part of any extraordinary success. Of course I also asked myself about the chances based on the assets Asgardia may have and the obvious bottlenecks. I may touch this in a future post. But for the moment, have you already voted? If not, why do you not run through the candidates to find out who is matching your ideas best. Go ahead! Asgardia has made a remarkable job in building up a solid foundation for the future. Now we need skilled people who build a functional unit on top of it. An Asgardia which also generates the income necessary to fulfil the ambitious targets

As soon as I learnt about Asgardia I was fascinated by the idea! Shortly afterwards I became an Asgardian. I used to follow the development and discussed with friends about the idea and the possibilities. Many I talked to showed interest. It was the time when the work on the constitution of Asgardia was in progress. A bit later the Resident concept came up and we were asked to pay 100 Euro for very little benefit, if any. For many reasons I felt this move not appropriate: Cost and benefit did not match, the price was simply far too high! For me and the few others I talked to, it looked like securing some income for the newly elected. A pattern some of us know very well from the countries they live in. It was in no way a promising move to rise the incredible big funds needed to go for the ambitious goals of Asgardia It was not encouraging people to jump on the idea of Asgardia It was discriminatory. People in "rich" countries more easily can spare 100 Euro, at least compared to humans in countries, where the monthly salary is far beyond 1000 Euro. (I do not forget the people in the "rich" countries, who also have to work extremely hard making up for their daily needs). As a matter of fact, our private discussions stopped. My personal interest in Asgardia became very low. Sometimes I received an email from Asgardia, I usually did not even read it. So I guess the question is, why did I choose to become a resident today?