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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (55400)	3/4/2007 5:57:57 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 90947

I thought of you this weekend! We finally found Mulholland Drive. Incredible views. I wouldn't have thought of it as a pyramid scheme, but that article makes a lot of sense overall. The economy IS circular. And it works fairly successfully within SL, but I don't think I would ever consider my Linden dollars "real" despite the claim to being a valid exchange. I have no idea how anyone could make real money yet in SL unless they were-- like Ansche Chung is- at the top of the heap. She collects real money for her rentals. Most people earn Linden dollars and pay for their Linden things without ever trying to turn them into real money. There are some very bigname clothes and hair designers- they may be able to convert. Dunno. I consider SL part of my entertainment budget. For my monthly fee (paid in real dollars), I get 500L a week, and I can own land. But I have no technical skills at all- and I just can't bring myself to be an "escort" which I understand brings in terrific money-- so have no way to earn money except by playing word games. Sometimes I cadge money off my son, who, the first week he was on SL developed some gadget that overrode some official program and made a ton of money in 24 hours. He had to stop though after he started working for Sheep. I fear CW is an outlaw in the Wild Tech West. For the first year, SL was for geeks and techie types. Now it has really expanded. No one knows how to define it- is it a game? a world? Will it survive? I do know that the departments in charge of development in big companies contact Sheep a lot about creating virtual sites.