{"id":56,"date":"2005-03-14T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=56"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:51:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T22:51:29","slug":"theres-virtual-gold-in-them-thar-virtual-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Virtual Gold In Them Thar Virtual Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the real world Gross National Product per capita of a virtual world ranks <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/1899420.stm\">right behind Russia<\/a>, there&#8217;s not much surprise in this story, <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,6903,1436411,00.html\">&#8220;They play games for 10 hours &#8211; and earn \u00a32.80 in a &#8216;virtual sweatshop'&#8221;,<\/a> over on the <strike>Observer<\/strike> Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>As they say, time is money. And this perhaps is one of the best examples I&#8217;ve seen. I imagine prospectors have staked their claims in poor, low-wage countries everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the real world Gross National Product per capita of a virtual world ranks right behind Russia, there&#8217;s not much surprise in this story, &#8220;They play games for 10 hours &#8211; and earn \u00a32.80 in a &#8216;virtual sweatshop&#8217;&#8221;, over on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=56\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[104,28],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-virtualgoods","tag-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}