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odograph on October 12, 2006 - 9:52am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Are you trolling me?

The activity never determined whether there was a sweatshop.  It was the oversight and the framework.  Sewing is the classic example: sometimes hobby, sometimes career, sometimes example of sweatshop victimization.

Pushing bits is similar ... as seen when people here push bits onto TOD comment threads.  Maybe there is a sweatshop somewhere were kids are made to pump up comment volume (or tediously create hand-made spam).

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Substrate on October 12, 2006 - 10:41am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
There are places which hire people for dirt cheap (India, china, etc) to play videogames and build character levels to sell them.  They play the characters 24 hours a day, handing them off between shifts before selling them.   Do a search on Ebay for World of Warcraft "WoW" and you'll find players there for sale as well as items and such.  It's weird shite.
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vtpeaknik on October 12, 2006 - 11:51am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Like the ad-based businesses: this is just a spreading-around of "discretionary" income that originates from other sources.  When the real economy crashes, there will not be many people paying for "virtual" stuff.
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odograph on October 12, 2006 - 11:54am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
What kind of clue should it be to us when you simply state "when the real economy crashes?"
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vtpeaknik on October 12, 2006 - 12:46pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
One of the consequences of PO will be that people in the formerly affluent societies will be forced to re-learn the difference between "needs" and "wants".  Real wealth grows in Kansas, not Wall Street.
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odograph on October 12, 2006 - 11:57am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Gotta run, but before I do I'll say how it strike me ... not so much that it is out of the question, but simply that it plays in certain forums better than others.

TOD is a place where commens like that are not uncommon ... noble forum or buglight, only our grandchildren will know for sure.

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tate423 on October 12, 2006 - 1:15pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
There's also ports for sale for HSX.  I played this for months. I was hooked hardcore and the only thing that broke it was PO.  They sell Hollywood Stock Exchange portfolios and they've got for as much as a hundred bucks for fake money to play with in a fake stock market game.  The fund is how fast you can grow it and once you're doubling your port within a month, it gets zany.  Lot of fun to waste some time.
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