LindeX Market Data Past Three Months?

Yes Fade, Yes... The consumer spends L$ on widgets
which are sold by the widget makers. Along with land by
the barons. They take those consumer L$ dollars and
sell them on LindenX for profit.

I don't have any problem with that, in fact I encourage it.
My issue is with the free flowing glut of L$ dollars being
pumped out by Linden Labs every week. The tap needs to
be turned off. If people want L$, they need to buy it from
their fellow SLer off the LindenX. Not wait for the welfare
check on Tuesday.... Which only adds to the L$ glut and
sends valuations into the toilet.. Hurting the profits of
the investors who poured money into SL to make a profit.
Capitalism should be promoted in SL, not Socialism.

I can appreciate the basic economic argument, however I believe there are more variables in that equation, and not all of them can be expressed numerically.
What you call 'socialism' I call marketing.
It is more attractive to buy some of your Lindens along with your premium membership, it just 'feels' nicer to people, it's a much easier sell for LL, but in essence (in the case of premiums), they are purchasing them.
Basics... well I actually don't think their current plan is very astute. I would think it better to give them more (like enough to have fun with) $L for a defined period, while they explored SL enough to decide if it was something they wanted to commit to financially. After that, maybe let them have the choice, free account, no stipend, or upgrade to premium. That is my personal take, and more based on what I see as shrewder business practise than anything that happens on the Lindex... whether that happened or not though, I don't actually care.
Now to me, it would not matter one bit if they stopped paying me my premium stipend today (I would however expect a repricing of the premium account to reflect this loss of value, not out of a sense of entitlement, thats just business). I get paid pretty good for my 'rainbows' (you can be creative and about business!).
But a very large proportion of the population is here just for purely for entertainment, and they like to spend their stipend in whatever way they enjoy, maybe buy a few more $L if they want a bit more fun. The premium stipend amounts to nothing more really than a convenient way to purchase some $L while you're paying your tier.
If premium membership was simply paying for tier, and all your Lindens had to be purchase in a seperate transaction, it really would I believe make a difference to the perception of value to the casual user, even the non-casual user who's here for something other than financial motivation, and even if it resulted in no net change to their expenditure (like they still only bought the $L500 they used to get with the premium account). Enough of those get turned off/aren't attracted in the first place, we all lose.
Promoting capitalism is fine, promoting it to the exclusion of all else is a very narrow marketing strategy.

Im the radical here? I think not.... what was it again you actually do in SL?

I told you time and time again Toy, I'm a Land dealer. I own
vast amounts of Land which I trade and make profit off small
margins in each transaction.


What do you do with your radical politics?

As opposed to what you do with your radical politics?

My politics are here to help. Help create an economy which is
strong, grows, and has all the right triggers within the economy
to encourge growth, investment, and a brighter tomorrow...

Much different than the (Where is my Welfare Check) dependancy
theory of yours, which is to live hand-to-mouth off the free money
Linden Labs passes out every week. Talk about taking away Stipends
and all the dependents jump up in arms like you were cutting the
umbilical cord.

No, your politics would make SL a wasteland and drive LL bankrupt.

Its far worse than getting my weekly PAID FOR stipend. Take away stipends cut that cost off my premium payments. THEN you can cut stipends.

Im not involved in any politics, sorry to burst your bubble. And ty for finally answering me, all you had said before is you 'control' some land. I dont equate that with owning land.
So basically you do nothing, sounds like welfare to me

RBD-

My math skillz are weak... please feel free to correct me.
(Unlike some people on this thread I can handle a little critism.)

Let's see... the rate was us1:L250(ish) then... now it's us1:L280(ish).

That's what... an 11% slip? Big fat hairy stinky deal. Why?

Because there are 300% or 400% more L$'s being traded daily now.

Then: I'd sell L$1000 for US$4.00.
Now: I sell L$3500 for US$12.50.

If you're still trading the same volumes of L$'s you were back then
you must be doing something dreadfully wrong.

Go BACKWARDS in time to try fixing this problem?
Sorry, man, I am SO not interested.

Think of it this way: It's not the volts that kill you.. it's the amps.

(How many amps does it take to kill a dead horse anyway?)

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Your politics appear to be here to help you shill for egold.

Do you get paid per click through on that signature?

In 2 weeks it went from 261 to 280. You can toss in fluctuations et al over the last year fine, but fact is the move I was commenting on was uber fast that happened like when Lucent, which almost got removed from the DJ and relegated to junk status went from 80 to 5 on NYSE. (see the 25 pt drop for that stock in one day and the 30k people who got canned in 2 weeks)...that was the pt. I was making.