INVALUABLE, ACTUALLY.

L O L

I think my words are pretty high content, actually, and I publish them for free, not associated with any corporation or metaversal services agency like your friend Vint here.

Anshe’s business model is fine with me because it’s a model that you accept if you advocate a free market — which I do. I personally don’t have that business model, as my model is more about lower-cost rentals to create communities and have those sustain the non-profit side of the work. I don’t make much from Second Life mainly because I have completely different RL jobs and activities that are important to me, and SL is a part-time business for me to pay a few bills. I don’t think I really have the necessary cut-throat determination and investment strategy to make it as some kind of “land baron” in SL.

I realize that doesn’t fit the cliche, and doesn’t help the haters to make their case, tant pis, c’est domage.

Of course what Anshe is doing is fine with Proky, because Proky hopes to continue with the same business model.

See, the problem is, if I do not do anything interesting, why do you keep dropping by? I can not believe your presence makes it more interesting.

Btw, I was changing my comment whilst you were replying. Dunno if it matters to you.

I’m sure you will find something to discuss about anyway. Again, can you please do that on your own blog? If there aren’t enough commenters there to insult - hence you come and battle on my blog - I would consider pondering a bit about the whole Prok-blog-thing.

Privatization of the grid — Balkanizing it and selling it off to a thousand Mr. Lee’s Hong Kongs like so much Snowcrash — isn’t good for the public. It’s extreme anarcho-capitalism. No country can have its public utilities entirely privatized or it becomes corrupt and unaccountable. Every society, if it is liberal, stable, and democratic, needs a balance. Second Life is a public utility that happens to have been made by a private company. It’s rather like a family-owned newspaper; a form requiring the public trust. There aren’t really good analogies to it. But it’s certain that privatizing all functions of SL isn’t at all a good thing.

By the same token, keeping them under harsh state-capitalistic or communistic centralized control as they are now, with favouritism, chaibolism, cronyism, oligarchism the inevitable result, isn’t a good option either. A balance must be struck. Given your extremism on other issues, I doubt you’d be the one to find that balance.

PS. Did you not promis to not drop by here uninvited anymore?

PSS. Prok, two quotes of you, how do they line up?

Prok quote I: The entire class of tier payers now pay something like $40 or $50 million per year in fees for islands, auction bids, and monthly tier. That’s a huge amount of purchasing power,that this large class of some 100,000 has. So they can organize it and use it.

Yet on my ‘And it will be our free choice to deside which sims we visit and which sims we ignore. We are free to start our own Second Life versions of labour unions, consumer organisations, newspapers, civil liberties unions, …’ you said:

Prok quote II: … the idea that when there is an archipelago of egos called “My Own Hosted Server” that it will be easy to navigate and chose “the best” or that we will be able to form “civil liberties unions” is…touching.

So for you drop by again for the sake of starting an argument, feel free to decide on your stance on things first.