SL currently gives 300L per week only to subscribers (paying accounts) - that's about $1 U.S. Dollar a week. I'm too lazy to look up the figures, but this might only inject $20,000 per week in real money into the SL economy. But the thing is, you have to pay US$10 a month to get this $1 a week, so Linden Labs is still getting positive injection of cash from this weekly stipend.
That's nowhere near the 7000L you claimed. Also, it doesn't matter how much money you have in your account, SL will give you this money every week. So there's no incentive to give your money to these "trusted" third parties except if you've got a lot of cash sitting in your SL account and would like to earn interest, like the real world.
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SL currently gives 300L per week only to subscribers (paying accounts) - that's about $1 U.S. Dollar a week. I'm too lazy to look up the figures, but this might only inject $20,000 per week in real money into the SL economy. But the thing is, you have to pay US$10 a month to get this $1 a week, so Linden Labs is still getting positive injection of cash from this weekly stipend. That's nowhere near the 7000L you claimed. Also, it doesn't matter how much money you have in your account, SL will give you this money every week. So there's no incentive to give your money to these "trusted" third parties except if you've got a lot of cash sitting in your SL account and would like to earn interest, like the real world.