*Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac and Linden Lab*

I don't want to lose my home in SL...

It makes me shudder to think how many innocent people, ordinary citizens of Second Life, will lose their homes, be devastated and loose their dream... because of this greed and disregard for commitment!

i have a building company on one of these open spaces....
it's not laggy..30% is water and we only use about 2/3rds or the prims.

my company has existed for 3 years, i have several employee's and several smaller shops that i give free rent too. the economy has hit my business hard, i no longer make enough to even cover my teir as it is. NOW when my sales are low the lindens propose to raise my "land tax" by 67%
i can no longer afford to pay out of my pocket and i definately can't afford the teir increase!
so my employee's will become unemployeed...and the small stores i give free rent to will close down.


how fair is this? i am quiting SL i feel ripped off i paid for my server it shouldn't become a free place for the lindens once i'm gone...

If not now, when? If not us, who?

Thousands of SL residents will suffer under this new LL ruling on Openspace sims. If you are one of them, or know one of them, and they are moral, support them. Write a message to every Linden you can find on search, and IM them a copy of it; put the message in a notecard and drop it in all of their profiles; post the message to this forum, with additional comments; post your message ini Jira; open LL trouble tickets and post your message; find blogs about SL and post your message there again and again.

Define the message and repeat it to all who will listen and to all who will not.

It worked for Gandhi.

Give it a shot.

It's a good thing for me , that I'm not the only one that sees this issue as oddly the same as the housing crisis that happened in the US.

First offer the costumers low priced products at amazing and affordable prices with a nice per month amount.

Then when you have suckered enough of them in *BAM* hit them with a insane increase in per month amount.


Now here comes the dilemma, if SL follows the same road as the US did then the next thing to happen will be that all the land owners will not be able to pay their rent and lose their land.
This in effect will cause the Open Sim market to crash and Open Sims will not be worth anything anymore, people will be unable to sell their land and they will be unable to keep it because they wont be able to pay for it.

There will be so many people that will lose their income and nobody will want to ( or have any money ) to spend Lindens to buy anything , which in affect will mean that designers/builders/animators will not have any costumers to buy their product which in affect means they wont have any income to pay for their rent on regular/mainland sim which in affect will cause the sim owners to not get enough income and they will also eventually lose their land.

More and more people will not be getting their income which means more and more people will not be able to pay their cost and *BAM* the SL economy collapses.

It will only be time before Linden Labs will have to throw in a bail out.

This assumes people only spend money they earn in SL. Many people don't earn money here, but buy L$ on the website. It makes no difference to my spending power what happens inside the SL economy, the money I spend here is earned in RL.