Economic Expert Position - My hat is in the ring!

Dear King Philip,

SL is in a time of great economic turmoil right now. I realize that there are many people hurting and many businesses being roiled by the recent slide of the L$ and general state of the economy.

With this in the forefront of my mind, I am rising to the occasion. I would be happy to offer my services to you and to SL in its time of need. I'm a financial expert and SL's greatest economic mind - I've years of RW financial experience behind me and a track record of success. I'll be e-mailing you my resume and request consideration for the economic position. As I'm sure you're aware from keeping up on the forums, I watch the economy like a hawk and would keep a strong lid on inflation and devaluation.

In terms of compensation, I would ask no more than I'm currently making and would request that I do not have to relocate. If I did have to relocate, I'd be willing to, but I may need a cost of living adjustment.

I'm willing to step up to save Second Life.

Most Sincerely,
Jamie Bergman

If you really wanted to save Second Life... you'd find something else to play instead.

Lewis

I believe business ethics are required for the position.

Why must Communists try to ruin everything? They ruined the USSR, Cuba, Angola, and the largest army in the world.

Come join the Capitalist side... we're the only ones winning these days.

Who said I'm a communist?

I want the best for Second Life.

You want what gives you the biggest profit potential.

Second Life has very little 'community spirit'. Apart from places like TeaZers, The Shelter and New Citizens Inc, pretty much everything else is one individual - or a group - doing their own thing and never mind everyone else.

Until that community spirit grows, SL is never going to go anywhere. Some of us try and forge it with what we can, but then others like you just go down the 'every avatar for themselves' track, which is less than helpful.

I am quite sure that seeing the raw data, especially for free v paid accounts, would be very scary to many of us.

Lewis

Any good capitalist wants this. Not just me.

Hi, I'm also a legend in my own bedroom and spout crap in the forums.

Can I have the job?

Actually, you're incorrect, again.

Capitalism, by its nature, is 'every man for himself', and therefore they only want what's best for themselves. To say 'any good capitalist' (which, by its nature, is a contradiction in terms) is impossible because all capitalists want themselves at the top of the pile to the exclusion of everyone else.

I really don't believe that you want what is best for Second Life. That's the difference between you and me.

Comrade Lewis

I dont think it's capitolists, I think it's people with boring lives and bad haircuts

Have you ever watched the Bloomberg channel on cable? What could be more boring than working in finance? Have you seen the haircuts of the financial news reporters?

I am so sorry your life is boring and you have bad hair

bahahahaha!

i would hire you on this alone

I wouldn't say my life is boring... finance is fun. Its such a rush to make money Of course, I will admit that I would like to have more time to be away from the computer (since a lot of market watching / info feeds are on the net) but all in all, I'm happy with what I do - and I do think that I have great hair.

I'd love a position as a finantial advisor on a TV channel, ooooooo! you'd get one of those cool names too.

Something like.... [name of animal] + [sound you make when hit on the solar plexus]

Good evening, my name is Fox Uhng, and we'll travel thru the woderful world of economics!


yeaaaah....

^_^

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA now That is funny!!!!
Last I knew the entire staff of LL was neither that dumb or or there are enough drugs in the world to get them to make that move

That's risky to submit yourself to a naming convention like that though you could end up with a name like "Beaver Owf*ckthathurt"

You seriously need to get out more, hey I know this great online place, just login, pony up a load of cash, and do anything you like, find it here

The Anti-Stipend Party says, "Ditto to you".

You really haven't been around much, have you. Almost everywhere I go there's groups and communities hanging out. Heck, wana see a comunity? Check out Furnation and Lusk. (which are, btw, two more communities suffering due to the huge decline in $L, even though they have nothing to do with just being here to make $)

I'm neither capatalist nor communist, I just want to have fun during my spare time and having to work a second job in SL is not fun. If LL does hire you, may I suggest polling the membership thoroughally before making a big change such as cutting all stipens. It may be in the best interest for the economy on paper, but I think you will find that it will end up costing LL and most of the content providers in the long run because of lost members.

Modern capitalism has long ago realized that capitalism only works in groups. No one person can get rich all by themselves without possibly winning a lottery. It's always groups working together to make things better for the group, and capitalists working to make their products and services better than another proson/group's. Second results in better quality and service for everyone else. You hurt a capitalist, you hurt everyone who's working together with that capitalist, and everyone who benefits from the products and services that capitalist or group of capitalists provide. It hasn't been a gold-rush-everyone-for-themselves economy for a long time now.

Dear Jamie Bergman,

Thanks for your offer. But at this time we are fully booked for the nexy 5 years worth of interviews with potential candidates for the non-existent job position of SL Economy Analyst. We can put you on the waitlist if you would like. Feel free to submit your resume to [email]Blackhole@UnnecessaryResumeSubmissions.com[/email].

Good luck with your job search.

Sincerely,

Not Linden-Lab Represantative,

Troy Vogel

What I mean is there isn't one overall community.

Furries tend to keep themselves to themselves. Goreans do the same. There isn't one overall representative group or community, at least what I've found.

Even within "communities", such as the furry communities... there are many different groups with no overall umbrella. Have you ever thought that if some of the furry groups were to join up, consolidate their resources and combine their traffic, it would be a better deal for all in those groups? Or is it just down to a slightly extended version of "doing my/our own thing" again?

Lewis

Oh, yeah, on that you're right. When SL was small, with only about 40 sims or so, there was at least a little more community, but it has just grown way too big for that now, I guess. Probably has to do with psychology and how many people each individual is willing to keep track of. As for consolidation, I kinda doubt that would help the economy any. Furs make a pretty close knit community, but they follow the same rules as SL as a whole, that being they don't want to pay too high of prices for content (not understanding the price relationship between $L and $US), and not really getting that if they don't support the people who are paying fo the islands and sims they hang out on, or the content and avatars they use, those people will just quit. Kinda same as all of SL as a whole, which is kinda same as the whole of the world as a whole.

Aww too bad, that probably means you wont get the job, just turn on MSNBC or Bloomberg, every financial expert has terrible hair

You might have better luck leaving the hat on for a day or two before throwing it into the ring, just to cultivate some good hat hair

If you're lucky maybe they'll need someone to clean thier toilets. Not sure they want someone whose chief pastime is looking for newer beter frebies to resell. And BTW, this stipend ending for new basics will hurt you worse than the rest of us as m,ost of your clientel was newbs who didn't know any better.

I think it's down to human nature Lewis.

Speaking in a slight generalisation, humans form relatively small social groups (people will argue about the size of the group, but outside marriage one of the numbers you see most often is about 50). The sub-communities within Gor and the Furries are a classic example of this, as are cliques at school, work outings etc. There are some hundreds/thousands of furries, large enough that (except for the requirements of a computer and broadband access as a minimum, and being over 1 they probably represent the rest of society pretty well. Male, female, 18-80, smart, daft, good business heads, bad business heads and so on. But humans can't "know" 1,000 people well (they can have over 1,000 people they know a bit, but there's not the time to keep up with 1,000 of them apart from anything else), so they form smaller groups within their shared interest group. We call them things like extend families, tribes etc.

Humans are also, generally speaking, rather territorial. We've bought that clearly into SL - why else do so many of us have homes? We like that patch that is "ours" where we feel safe, and part of the reason we (again generally) are so anti-griefer is that they violate our safety and privacy on our patch. In the UK at least being burgled isn't likely to lead to serious physical harm, most burglars are unarmed. But even if nothing is stolen it's a psychological trauma for most (and a very severe one for some) thinking of people going through your things.

There are many things that MOST of us in SL do that are nicer than how RL works. But there are still, obviously, some bits that are human nature and we can't, generally, step away from them.