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Monday, February 12, 2007

Cory weighs in on 2ndLife

Blast from Cory (via Valleywag):

Exporting your Linden wealth

RU Sirius interviews sci-fi writer, futurist, and Electronic Frontier Foundationer Cory Doctorow on a variety of subjects, ending with Doctorow's riff on Second Life wealth:
In many ways, that in-game wealth is meaningless unless it's bankable in a system that's responsive to democratic principles. In other words, you can accumulate a lot of money in apartheid-era rand, or Soviet-era rubles, but it doesn't really mean anything because you can't really export your wealth -- because the state controls access to it. And even if you can, you can't export the source of your wealth, right?

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