Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
- Title: Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
- Author: Julian Dibbell
- Hardcover: 321 pages
- Publisher: Basic Books (June 28, 2006)
- ISBN: 0465015352
When I read a short reference to this book in a magazine, I figured I should read the book and then send it to my son – he’s bought and sold stuff from on-line games and I thought this might be interesting. It is….
This book is a quick read with lots of interesting tangents, for example Dibbell’s research on work as play (which is how it should be mostly, I think) and the whole fake economy that MMOs have, much like many large corporations (what’s a budget anyway but a false economy striving to make people make desirable decisions).
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July 18th, 2006 by alephnaught