{"id":146,"date":"2006-07-18T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T10:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/07\/18\/play-money-or-how-i-quit-my-day-job-and-made-millions-trading-virtual-loot\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T16:51:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T00:51:49","slug":"play-money-or-how-i-quit-my-day-job-and-made-millions-trading-virtual-loot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/07\/18\/play-money-or-how-i-quit-my-day-job-and-made-millions-trading-virtual-loot\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-146\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Play-Money-Millions-Trading-Virtual\/dp\/0465015360\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1225673302&amp;sr=8-3\">Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Julian Dibbell<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardcover: <\/strong>321 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Basic Books (June 28, 2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0465015352<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 &#8211; he&#8217;s bought and sold stuff from on-line games and I thought this might be interesting.  It is&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a quick read with lots of interesting tangents, for example Dibbell&#8217;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&#8217;s a budget anyway but a false economy striving to make people make desirable decisions).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-146\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 146);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-146\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-146\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-2m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}