From: Max Demar
Since, in 1life in th U.S., automobile manufacturing is the number 1 revenue maker and the economy of the U.S. is totally dependent on motor vehicles, which require roads, I would suggest that SL might make drivable roads as a NORMAL part of SL's land as well as private islands. This would provide a unquestionable growth in possiblities. Now when we buy a car, we do so to motor around WHEN we can, but with drivable roads, vehicles would be a necessity, as they are in 1life.
Business that make cars, aftermarket items, on and on would thrive, grow, and business that relate to vehicles, ie: roadside properties, would become much wanted land. Shopping areas would spring up etc.
Airports and the like would then also come into play.
Just a suggestion : )
Sounds like you miss the macroeconomics of real life primitive materialistic economics.
Think of Second Life economy as a natural resource like Sea-Water compared to Oil.
It's easy to say that there is too little (renewable) oil, wich excuses the pricejumps. Funny because facts shows:
1. oil is a renewable resource (but it's hidden, unlike Sea-Water).
2. there hasn't been built ONE single refinary in US since 80's (yes at about that time oil reached all time lows of $10 a barrel). It's natural for a average oil baron to do whatever necesary to keep supply levels as low as possible. (imagine what would happen to SL land prices if LL stopped announcing auctions of new land, "theres more than enough land out in the open markets to satisfy the growing demands... reminds me of OPEC's 1990's attitude"
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Economies like sl require abit more than the understanding of macroeconomics, you actualy have to make atmospheres, and be hellova creative to survive in the long run (exceptionaly since RL estimates dont work ingame... Dwell did EXACLY the oposite than create user content... it only created user content once: "the chair that enslaved halv population to sit on their ass off all day and night doing theoreticaly nothing".)
Making Sea-Water a demanding commodity, is prety close to this future-economy, and the main reason why most people find sl so attractive.
So please we don't want that primitive economy model in this world too. (unless you let a little greedy lobby to run the Federal Reserve and put their chosen people into decision making org's like opec, eu, wto, un... only then people benefit from a such system, but those benefits are limited to that little lobby, rest of the community is enslaved to work all day like we got enslaved to campingchairs all day)
btw. recent studies proves that water has memory (now we need to figure out how to run scripts on that memory)
