RightasRain, you've been on the very front page now for weeks, and you were in the Showcase not "a week" but months -- featured continually.
You can buy a single void sim but they cost $250, not $75 -- $75 is the monthly tier.
You have to already have a private island to be eligible to purchase one.
You seem to have an ideological basis against the land business, which you a) call "land speculation" (as if this is something evil) and b) imagine is "all land speculation".
And yet it's the Linden's model, first and foremost, that enables them to pay those 300 employees and executive lunches. Why should *they* get to arbitrage, but everybody else has to be a socialist in a commune?! That only leads to -- and has lead to! -- corporate towns paying corps of tethered content creators -- like yourself -- and other forms of oligarchy -- first and foremost, from the Lindens and their friends.
There is nothing inherently wrong with arbitrage; it's a key feature of all normal and free economics. The people selling land in SL aren't Mr. Moneybags Evil Capitalist like in some 19th century cartoon; they are housewives, students, retired people, poor people. RL rich people aren't going to be trying to make money *this way* which has long unpaid hours and huge risks.
The land business is a service. It takes wholesale large sims, advances the cost of them, and makes them available in smaller units, and also holds the tier on them on a sim as people develop over 30-60-90 days and add more land. Land dealers are available to liquidate at a moment's notice, now with bots. Land dealers make it possible to rent to own. If it weren't for land dealers and a free land market in Second Life, there wouldn't be the huge surge of sustained creativity for so many people that there is -- there would merely be high-cost shelf space that people like you with RL resources would buy to put trinkets on, and force everybody else to become a mass audience, as they are with television or magazines.
Virtual worlds are 3-D streaming social media that enables the ordinary person, not just the entrepreneur, to monetarize their time online, and one of the ways that is achieved is by making it possible for tens of thousands of people to go into small rentals businesses and sustain the shops and homes of other people.
You seem to be jamming on Bay City. Why buy such a silly-priced parcel? We already saw parcels like that on other Linden zoned land for the last 2-3 years in Brown, Boardman, Shermerville, and we could only expect the exact same thing in Bay City. It's not a good model. All that happens is that wealthy hobbyists buy and hold, and then make some profit by the occasionally very wealthy end-user. But the Lindens can't declare a free land market -- and then put caps on their own content-filled and zoned land. I think they should, because what's happening is that a clear social good -- Linden zoned, content-filled, and protected land is being hoarded -- but they will not -- it's their own ideological decision.
They do make a lot from Bay City, even priced in Lindens, because it enables them to siphon off all the excess banking, ad extortion, and casino money remaining among some key players, and helps them put it into real estate -- where they can then make a profit, and the Lindens have to sell more Supply Lindens on the auction, which they do each money, and raise their income from half a million to a million dollars or more, which was their high at one point with the last real estate bubbles.
Real estate bubbles reward Supply Linden first and foremost, and of course Currency Linden, who gets a fee for all the transactions on the auction.
I don't think they should split the platform from a world based on real estate whatsoever. There are other platforms where you can play with Photoshop and Sketch-up and Google and make 3-D prototypes for business clients. Second Life isn't so perfect for that, but it has something far more important -- interaction among people in real time and asynchronic time and serendipity and removal of time and space barriers. There is no reason on earth why this cannot take the form that it has always taken in human affairs, with marketplaces, bazaars, chaihanas.
The model of one wealth patron sustaining a stable of high-end content creators as a marker of wealth, and collecting tributes or fees from portrait-sitters and various other donors worked in the Renaissance but it cannot work as a viable model for a modern economy; it can only be one facet of any economy.
RightasRain, you've been on
Mon, 06/30/2008 - 21:49 — Prokofy Neva (not verified)RightasRain, you've been on the very front page now for weeks, and you were in the Showcase not "a week" but months -- featured continually.
You can buy a single void sim but they cost $250, not $75 -- $75 is the monthly tier.
You have to already have a private island to be eligible to purchase one.
You seem to have an ideological basis against the land business, which you a) call "land speculation" (as if this is something evil) and b) imagine is "all land speculation".
And yet it's the Linden's model, first and foremost, that enables them to pay those 300 employees and executive lunches. Why should *they* get to arbitrage, but everybody else has to be a socialist in a commune?! That only leads to -- and has lead to! -- corporate towns paying corps of tethered content creators -- like yourself -- and other forms of oligarchy -- first and foremost, from the Lindens and their friends.
There is nothing inherently wrong with arbitrage; it's a key feature of all normal and free economics. The people selling land in SL aren't Mr. Moneybags Evil Capitalist like in some 19th century cartoon; they are housewives, students, retired people, poor people. RL rich people aren't going to be trying to make money *this way* which has long unpaid hours and huge risks.
The land business is a service. It takes wholesale large sims, advances the cost of them, and makes them available in smaller units, and also holds the tier on them on a sim as people develop over 30-60-90 days and add more land. Land dealers are available to liquidate at a moment's notice, now with bots. Land dealers make it possible to rent to own. If it weren't for land dealers and a free land market in Second Life, there wouldn't be the huge surge of sustained creativity for so many people that there is -- there would merely be high-cost shelf space that people like you with RL resources would buy to put trinkets on, and force everybody else to become a mass audience, as they are with television or magazines.
Virtual worlds are 3-D streaming social media that enables the ordinary person, not just the entrepreneur, to monetarize their time online, and one of the ways that is achieved is by making it possible for tens of thousands of people to go into small rentals businesses and sustain the shops and homes of other people.
You seem to be jamming on Bay City. Why buy such a silly-priced parcel? We already saw parcels like that on other Linden zoned land for the last 2-3 years in Brown, Boardman, Shermerville, and we could only expect the exact same thing in Bay City. It's not a good model. All that happens is that wealthy hobbyists buy and hold, and then make some profit by the occasionally very wealthy end-user. But the Lindens can't declare a free land market -- and then put caps on their own content-filled and zoned land. I think they should, because what's happening is that a clear social good -- Linden zoned, content-filled, and protected land is being hoarded -- but they will not -- it's their own ideological decision.
They do make a lot from Bay City, even priced in Lindens, because it enables them to siphon off all the excess banking, ad extortion, and casino money remaining among some key players, and helps them put it into real estate -- where they can then make a profit, and the Lindens have to sell more Supply Lindens on the auction, which they do each money, and raise their income from half a million to a million dollars or more, which was their high at one point with the last real estate bubbles.
Real estate bubbles reward Supply Linden first and foremost, and of course Currency Linden, who gets a fee for all the transactions on the auction.
I don't think they should split the platform from a world based on real estate whatsoever. There are other platforms where you can play with Photoshop and Sketch-up and Google and make 3-D prototypes for business clients. Second Life isn't so perfect for that, but it has something far more important -- interaction among people in real time and asynchronic time and serendipity and removal of time and space barriers. There is no reason on earth why this cannot take the form that it has always taken in human affairs, with marketplaces, bazaars, chaihanas.
The model of one wealth patron sustaining a stable of high-end content creators as a marker of wealth, and collecting tributes or fees from portrait-sitters and various other donors worked in the Renaissance but it cannot work as a viable model for a modern economy; it can only be one facet of any economy.