If Stipends Are Ended, Boycott Lindex

Did I mention skill? Nope... I mentioned thought and effort...

Thought being "how can I make some money?" Thought being "there are events that will entertain me while I can make some money." Thought being "I win, the host wins... great!"
Yes, I can see how no thought was required...

Effort being finding the events, taking part in the treasure hunts, (and if you dare to say that's no effort, you've never taken part in one...) finding a camping spot that isn't/wasn't already taken, searching for money trees that still exist... (a lot of them came and went within days...)
Yes... no effort at all...
Ah... the "I will not accept defeat so I'll change the argument" tactic...

You asked how a "clueless newbie" could make a reasonable income within days, I've provided you with a way to do just that.
Now, however, you want to change it to exclude any "handouts"

Since all the money out there is created by some form of handout, you're wanting me to exclude all the money in SL and then show you how to earn money. Spot the fallacy...



Oh, and since all the money in the economy was created by stipends/dwell/event support (also known as handouts) all the methods I mentioned are simply redistributing the available money... not creating any wealth at all.
You want to tell me just how redistributing money has screwed the economy? Please remember that buy/selling content is also redistributing money and therefore is also screwing the economy...

i checked at one time , altho at an old currency exchange site, ige, and spending (the ammount of money you spend on a premium account) money buying lindens gets you just about the same ammount of lindens in the end, or small enough a difference to make it inconsequential; so unless You own land, and need a premium account, taking the stipend away, will not matter;

Silly Rabbit! We do not need to buy any content to play Second Life! My inventory is so clogged with objects it is silly. While on the other hand you need to sell content to make money to pay tier or rent!

I second! If the stipends are dropped boycott buying the Linden!

I refuse to lose money to support some content provider or landlord! Dropping Stipend will get me to drop to basic and boycott buying Lindens! Any Lindens I acquire will come from sales of my super secret satellite system! Giggle, laugh this stuff is ah so funny...............



About Linden Labs surviving? It is not my job to support Lindens labs, they are not my family............If their business practices destroy them well so what?

Which comes to the other falacy in what you're proposing. If you don't buy any content, then you obviously don't buy any linden. So how will your boycotting of Lindex change anything? It's no different than Southern Baptists boycotting Disney, when many of them never bothered to go to Disney, anyway. Or other Christian organizations boycotting Ford for advertizing in gay magazines, when many of then never bother to buy anything from Ford, either.

And no, I don't need to sell content. I don't pay rent or tier (free account here), but I do make money from SL that helps me offset my RL payments a bit. I mainly do that through investments and such. Problem is, unlike content sales which simply allows you to adjust your prices for inflation, investments typically involve large amounts of money moving from place to place, and then sitting for a while. The $650USD worth off Linden that I have sitting some place one day will be worth less when I move it to another location the next.

I buy content with my stipend. It is not worth changing into dollars. So I tend to buy things with it even if not needed. Don’t you get it yet? No stipend means no Lindens which means no content purchases for me. Most residents spend their stipends; I would never spend real money on this crud. Instead of inflating the currency, being used for content sales then being paid in rent, etc. It will not be there at all. The economy of second life will decrease by this amount. True some residents will buy Lindens but not all or as much.

I collected a few pretty pennies that way when I first started, too, actually, and had a lot of fun doing so. At the time, I thought to myself, "how nice of these landowners to provide newbs like myself with such an easy and enjoyable way to earn money!".

Of course, I was completely unaware of the fact that these very creative and generous landowners were being paid back for all that swag with dwell, which made it more of a symbiotic relationship- we got something, they got something, everybody happy. But with the coming end of dwell, all that's about to become history.

So bully for us, who found that our measley basic stipend was easily enhanced by playing games and dancing the night away, and too bad, so sad for the newbs of the future who will find such events rather scarce once dwell ends and those payments and prizes become true charity- landowners paying out a lot more than they'll earn back and ending up in the red.

Everything I really wanted to say on the subject has already been written by others more articulate anyway, but I'll just add that I like the idea of giving basic accounts enough money to buy a taste of the fun stuff, the cool clothes, what have you, and I hope at least of few of them will buy these things from me, because I'm paying some pretty hefty (for me, anyway) tier nowadays, and I'd like to earn a bit back. I don't need to earn a living here, but it's almost as much fun to make money as it is to spend money, you know?

As to what you can really get for that measley stipend... addicted. That's what. Worked for me.

Ending stipends for either basic or premium accounts is just plain bad business.

From what the people at the top of the dwell list tell me, dwell pays VERY little. To the point that they don't even take it into consideration. You being there means that you might buy something there, and many of you's being there means people will see a lot of green dots on the map, and may come to check out what's going on. Plus usually just keeping some people around your place gives it a "something's happening here and it's not all abandoned" feel, whuch helps a lot too. I actually thought dwell has already been gotten rid of. I mean it's beed cut so drastically a while ago that it's almost useless now.

What if LindenLabs were to switch to a system where your monthly subscription would be used to buy Lindens on Lindex, with no land involved? Would that work out for you, since you're still PAYING that same $10 to play this game, and are still getting the same stippend?





P.S. I think the main argument here is not whether you should stop getting your measely $500l a week for $10US a month, but whether that $500 should be pulled out of thin air, or pulled out of the actual work and contribution that developers have put into the game (Lindex).

No I do not like it..........It would raise my tier, do you really think I am limited to 512sq meters of land? No I signed up for a certain plan and it should be enforced until my one year ends. Then I will drop back to basic if the stipend is dropped and buy from Anshe Chung. Having land on the mainland is such a thrill............

Yes, I always laugh at those "national don't buy gas days". I'm sure the oil companies laugh too... because they know that we all drive cars that operate on gasoline and HAVE to buy their product. I don't even really blame them for jacking the price of gas up to $3.00+ per gallon... we do live in a free market after all. More power to them.

Bad comparison, People need to buy gasoline to drive their cars to get to work/school etc. We in second life do not have to buy your content to play. Understand what I am saying??

Count me in.

Actually it's a demand some of the panic inducing money mongers are making hoping to fool linden into doing something that would force us to buy thier L's. If LL did lsten personally I think we'd probably see prices on L's triple overnight due to thier absolutely insatiable greed to make it at other's expense. Wish they'd spend as much time creating content as panic.

The unfortunate thing is a lot of games/events in SL are rigged so they are really a non option to earn L's. As far as work most employers don't pay but rather give out tip jars and even take a cut of those tips thereby gaining free labor and income. Personally I wish pl would start refusing to work for any establishment that does NOT pay them an hourly rate to work for them.