Prepare for a Wave of New Business!!!! (Or Dealing a Defeat to Communistic Forces)

The truth comes out at last. Jonas is nothing more than another hypocrite.

I did my own work and used some open source scripts. Hardly a hypocrite ye-who-sells-freebies-for-500-lindens

Thanks, Jamie. Judging from your description, I'd say that actually very few of those criticising the current economical system of SL are communists. They can be socialists (which in this context is another matter, can be both left and right) and wish to upgrade the value of work and production, creating buying power for the common good.

Personally, I have decided to stylize myself as a "functionalist", meaning a general opinion about Virtual Worlds that products and builds should have functions in-world, not just be eyecandy.

Not eventually, it starts immediately. Communism in the Soviet Union was nothing but a parasite on the body of the Russian people, which it kept down by the use of terror and thought crime. Over 5 miliion people perished because of Vladimir Lenin alone (in just about four years), i.e, even before Stalin came along.

Well, the tricky part is that SL Communists never are that obvious. They hide behind innoculous sounding proposals and kvetchy "grass roots" movements. You have to look behind their proposals and see what they are really saying.

For example, many SL communists favor creating L$s so that everyone has as much as needed. Sounds cool, right? But what are they really saying? If LL kept creating L$ out of thin air, the value would plumment (supply and demand economics). Those content creators who have poured hours into their works would see the value of their work diminish dramatically. So, in essense, what the SL communist is saying is that content creators should work for (near) free for the "common good".

Sneaky.

Not absurd at all. Who is in a bidding war to undersell each other on the Lindex? The very people Jaime calls capitalists. Sure they care about the stability of the $L, but profits today are more important than stability tomorrow. You want proof? Just look at the statistics. Every day people underbid each other in an effort to cash out as quickly as possible. That's a bad business plan.

And it's not true that anyone who sells $L contributes to its decline. The $L will only decline if you put your $L up for sale at a lower price than its currently selling for. Selling doesn't cause a decline, just as stipends and other money coming in don't cause it. Underbidding your competitors when selling causes the decline. And it's the business people in SL who are doing it. The average resident occasionally buys $L, but rarely, if ever, sells them.

So taking away Dwell, or Stipends isn't going to have a long term affect on the value of the $L. It will just hurt the residents who depend on them. And telling them to get to work and make their own money, what will that do? It will mean more people underbidding each other on the Lindex, driving the $L further lower.

(and for what it's worth... the falling value of the L$ doesn't diminsh the value of my work... only the value of the L$ I get for that work.)

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(Mr. Green:) So. It IS political. You're a communist!
(Ms. Scarlet:) No, Mr. Green. Communism is just a red herring.
Like all members of the oldest profession, I'm a capitalist.
And I'm gonna sell my secrets--your secrets--to the highest bidder.

The Capitalist Attack has begun.... SL will be swamped with
Capitalist to out number the Socialists 5 to 1.

Glory, Glory, Our Day has Arrived.

And then it will realise that as long as the capitalists are the people who tend to benefit from capitalism (ie, money makers) and the socialists are the people who tend to think they would benefit from socialism (ie, money spenders), that the market can't operate with that ratio.

I don't believe in this and I fear your follow up example is flawed. Only because you're not supporting the FIC's daily swamping the currency market as they bring home profits in USD and then whine about the very consequences of their own actions (the falling L), trying to put the blame on the ordinary SL consumer, it does not make you a communist.

If these speculators are what is meant by "capitalists" however, I'm furiously anticapitalist, and I am, as you have already learned, a fierce enemy of communism. Yes, you can be both.

I don't have no secret agendas, and neither do most others (for example Prokofy Neva, Lewis Nerd etc) who criticise the current system. If you want to test if a person is a communist on the other hand, observe how they react as soon as you mention the historical reality of communism, see them violently attack you, make excuses due to their New York liberal upbringing, make irrelevant references to nazism, racism or generally behaving obnoxiously politically correct. That's a true leftie and at least a potential bolshevik.

I am neither of those. In fact, I bet a few of them can be found on the Linden currency exchange, nowadays proudly naming themselves libertarian capitalists.

Well, should I be polite or rude?

Let's go with polite this time....

Jauani, I don't know how you possibly came up with the ridiculous idea that I'm sad that new residents will be competing to sell L$ with me on the Lindex. But, just to put your mind at ease, I've never sold money on the Lindex, and don't ever foresee having enough money in SL that I would need to. So, don't worry, I'm not sad.

That aside, at least if you're going to attribute things to people, try not to make stuff up. It just seems dishonest somehow.

Welcome back to "Land and the Economy" by the way, Michael. I haven't noticed you posting much lately.

Doesn't Jamie also modify the freebies that she sells? What you've described sounds a lot like modifying freebies.

If it's a 'sink or swim' environment - boy howdie will I make out like a bandit!.

I wasn't aware building a hot tub then putting scripts (that are open soarce and remain open source) in them was modifying anything. Here I thought building something meant it was bult, not modified. Is my definition off?

I also don't charge for the scripts since I got them free. Only my work with the design and implementation, texturing and shaping.

My hot tub might use Siggy's scripts (something he was aware of) but they are different in design than his design, and the scripts are still an added 'freebie' with the tubs.

Considering the source of this comment (Jamie Bergman) and their definition of SL communist (going by which there might be 1 or 2 sl communists in all of SL), I take this as a compliment. Obviously any negative comment from Jamie is a compliment in hiding. Thank you Jamie, for admitting we are all better than you.