Comments on: Real Money For Virtual Gold as a Virtual Job? http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/real-money-for-virtual-gold-as-a-virtual-job/467/ VTOR - Virtual TO Reality, featuring Second Life Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:50:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: TD Goodliffe http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/real-money-for-virtual-gold-as-a-virtual-job/467/#comment-391 TD Goodliffe Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:23:25 +0000 http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/real-money-for-virtual-gold-as-a-virtual-job/467/#comment-391 Nah, I'm a Libra, we believe in balance. Balance in work and life. What's so hard about challenging how somebody spends their free time? I'm not dispassionate for people in work conditions like these, but I do not believe all of these people have <i>no</i> choice. I'm sure some of them don't and are forced to work like (as) slaves with no free time to spend. In those cases I feel for those people very much and wish there were no places on earth where this occured. However, the young man in the video clearly admitted after he was done working he spent that time playing the same games. If I knew my life would be forced doing manual labor at subhuman wages and the only way I could get out of it was to spend my free time learning a new language you can bet that's what I'd be doing with my own time. Again, that assumes it was an option available to me. I couldn't tell from the video if that option was available to him. As for me writing "learning Englins" in the first post instead of learning <i>English</i> Freudian slip. Doh! Nah, I’m a Libra, we believe in balance. Balance in work and life.

What’s so hard about challenging how somebody spends their free time? I’m not dispassionate for people in work conditions like these, but I do not believe all of these people have no choice. I’m sure some of them don’t and are forced to work like (as) slaves with no free time to spend. In those cases I feel for those people very much and wish there were no places on earth where this occured.

However, the young man in the video clearly admitted after he was done working he spent that time playing the same games. If I knew my life would be forced doing manual labor at subhuman wages and the only way I could get out of it was to spend my free time learning a new language you can bet that’s what I’d be doing with my own time. Again, that assumes it was an option available to me. I couldn’t tell from the video if that option was available to him.

As for me writing “learning Englins” in the first post instead of learning English Freudian slip. Doh!

]]> By: Caliandris Pendragon http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/real-money-for-virtual-gold-as-a-virtual-job/467/#comment-388 Caliandris Pendragon Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:12:05 +0000 http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/real-money-for-virtual-gold-as-a-virtual-job/467/#comment-388 Cory Doctorow wrote a wonderful short story about this called "Anda's Game" which can be found here: http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2004/11/15/andas_game/index.html You're a hard man TD. Cory Doctorow wrote a wonderful short story about this called “Anda’s Game” which can be found here:
http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2004/11/15/andas_game/index.html

You’re a hard man TD.

]]> By: TD Goodliffe http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/real-money-for-virtual-gold-as-a-virtual-job/467/#comment-381 TD Goodliffe Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:28:48 +0000 http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/real-money-for-virtual-gold-as-a-virtual-job/467/#comment-381 The part toward the end of the video where the young man says that because he doesn't speak English and didn't graduate from high school he is going to be forced to work at the bottom. I wonder if that's really true. Can't he spend the time "after doing the daily tasks" as he put it learning Englins online? Or is he not allowed to surf the net for educational purposes? It seems to me like he's using his free time to play the same game -- or a different game -- he's gold farming on. That doesn't strike me as a very good use of free time, what little he may have. The part toward the end of the video where the young man says that because he doesn’t speak English and didn’t graduate from high school he is going to be forced to work at the bottom. I wonder if that’s really true. Can’t he spend the time “after doing the daily tasks” as he put it learning Englins online? Or is he not allowed to surf the net for educational purposes? It seems to me like he’s using his free time to play the same game — or a different game — he’s gold farming on. That doesn’t strike me as a very good use of free time, what little he may have.

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