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'World of Warcraft' Game Currency Now Worth More Than Venezuelan Money (theblaze.com)
schwit1 quotes TheBlaze:
Digital gold from Blizzard's massive multiplayer online game "World of Warcraft" is worth more than actual Venezuelan currency, the bolivar, according to new data. Venezuelan resident and Twitter user @KalebPrime first made the discovery July 14 and tweeted at the time that on the Venezuela's black market -- now the most-used method of currency exchange within Venezuela according to NPR -- you can get $1 for 8493.97 bolivars. Meanwhile, a "WoW" token, which can be bought for $20 from the in-game auction house, is worth 8385 gold per dollar. According to sites that track the value of both currencies, KalebPrime's math is outdated, and WoW gold is now worth even more than the bolivar.
That tweet has since gone viral, prompting @KalebPrime to joke that "At this rate when I publish my novel the quotes will read 'FROM THE GUY THAT MADE THE WOW GOLD > VENEZUELAN BOLIVAR TWEET.'"
That tweet has since gone viral, prompting @KalebPrime to joke that "At this rate when I publish my novel the quotes will read 'FROM THE GUY THAT MADE THE WOW GOLD > VENEZUELAN BOLIVAR TWEET.'"
Sweden and Germany: the world leaders into turning themselves into sharia shitholes in the self imposed eu rapeugee crisis. What proud shining examples.
Why would you take one failed 3rd world country and hold it up as an example of a system that has had successes in other parts of the world... Most of the western world is "socialist" to some degree or another. The Scandanavian countries have some of the highest standards of living in the world and would definitely be considered "socialist" by your view. It's also called being part of a society rather than some Randian utopia of self centered greed. At some point you're going to have to realize that the work OTHER people do and then claimed by the owner class is just as flawed philosophically...