{"id":813,"date":"2006-03-29T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T13:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2006-03-31T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T16:56:17","slug":"the-boredom-of-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"The Boredom of Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual world economic theorist Edward Castronova has a one-page piece over on <em>Wired<\/em> called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.04\/gecon.html\" target=\"blank\">&#8220;Geekonomics&#8221; (Link)<\/a>. While he&#8217;s focused on contrasting the scarcity in the real world with the abundance in a virtual world, I found a <em>comparison<\/em> between the two more interesting. After all, there are some things in the real world that share important qualities with virtual goods. Most of you know where I&#8217;m going with this, so I won&#8217;t turn on the rant machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual world economic theorist Edward Castronova has a one-page piece over on Wired called &#8220;Geekonomics&#8221; (Link). While he&#8217;s focused on contrasting the scarcity in the real world with the abundance in a virtual world, I found a comparison between the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=813\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}