You have 3 guild members: a leatherworker, a tailor, and a blacksmith.
All 3 guild members each have a mage, a rogue, and a warrior.
Scenario 1: All 3 members farm materials equally, and produce gear for each others alts. Everyone logs in for the same amount of time, gets the same percentage of loot drops, and shares all the gold equally.
Scenario 2: All 3 members farm materials, but at different rates, the tailor farming 33% of the time, the leatherworker farming 66%, and he blacksmith farming 100% of the time. The blacksmith provides gear for everyone’s warriors. The LW provides 2/3 of the necessary gear for the rogues, and the tailor only 33% for the mages.
Scenarior 3 & 4: same as 1 & 2, with the exception being that all the gear must go into the guild bank, with a 4th member dictating who gets what gear and when.
Scenario 5: The tailor farms enough to make full gear for all 3 members. The LW makes half as much gear, and the blacksmith doesn’t make anything. The tailor sells the excess gear for gold to buy what she needs off of the AH, and trades some with the LW. The LW can gear himself with a little left over to trade and a bit to sell. The BS has nothing to sell or wear, but demands that the tailor and LW provide him with gear, yet has nothing to offer the other 2.
Which situation, using a very popular current term, is the most “fair” to EVERYONE involved, equally?