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If you think buying fake money with real money is retarded, check out these asses, buying fake land and paying fake taxes with real money to a couple of geniuses who have set up their own currency factory, err MMORPG.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/fun.gam...eut/index.html
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Julian Dibbell is the John Maynard Keynes of the post-real economy. On
his blog he chronicles a year long quest to make a living buying and selling imaginary goods. So maybe he's the David Ross of Britannia. In any event I once tried to explain to him that Poker complicates money in a similar way, but from the opposite direction.
In the Manifesto, Marx describes the modern world as a kaleidoscopic realm in which "all that is solid melts into air". I think if he were alive today he would go on to say "But there remains one thing we can all count on: Sklansky Dollars!"
/mc