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The Economy of Everquest
Gr0und_zer0 writes: " A Cal State professor is currently conducting an economic survey of Everquest players which will be used to write a paper he plans to submit to an academic journal. It will be very interesting to see how this turns out and if it actually is published. Maybe we will learn the Everquest platinum to be favorable to some of those devalued third world currencys floating around. So much for living in reality, who needs the stock market these days, I'll invest in Everquest."
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I disagree.
According to Adam Smith (famous Scottish economist) the basic unit of wealth is not subjective, it is objective. It is human labor.
Therefore, since people spend time and exert energy in order to obtain things in Everquest, those thing have every bit as much value as anything that requires wealth to obtain.
I'll look to like if looking liking move...