Gil Toss Ability to drain gil out of the economy?

[darkstarpoet1]

1. I'm nowhere near poor.
2. I'm an economist irl
3. At the moment the FFXIV economy will not function properly at PS3 release due to some people holding on to 100's of mil. If that gil is not drained prior to the PS3 release the games economy will fall apart quickly. This happened in FFXI due to similar reasons as a result of Rusty Cap Fish-botting.
4. What I proposed here is basic economic incentive-based policy. The policy creates an incentive for capable individuals to pool gil from across the server into their personal hands and then depost that gil into a gil sink to remove it from the economy. It's not magic, it's not revolutionary. It's quite simple.
edit 5: This does not make rich people "poorer", it just converts their gil into an item. A possibility would be to make those items trade-able so that they actually retain their value.

mog is right. most of the crafters i know of that have hundreds thousands worth of gil are not going to simply throw it away. no matter what type of incentive you put out unless someone deems the item worth it then they are not going to spend their money on it. the people that have amassed the gil have done so by being smart with how they spent it. i can't see many, if any, changing directions and then just blowing it on a chance of one item they are not assured of.