[lbo-talk] workers take pay in virtual coin

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jun 19 04:45:18 PDT 2010


On Jun 19, 2010, at 3:06 AM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:


> What the article doesn't mention -- this is Bloomberg, after all, the
> place where, as a friend of mine once put it, America's silicon
> oligarchs
> do their thinking -- is that videogame culture is astonishingly
> resistant
> to commodification. It's something structural, deep in the
> military-industrial/silicon-imperial DNA of gaming. Game communities
> are
> not product placement ads, they are some of the most fascinating,
> multicultural, transnational, and democratic communities around. Their
> power over the aesthetic forces and relations of production keeps
> increasing, and this scares the hell out of Big Media.

Wait a minute - we've got people working for play money and you think there's something *good* about it?

Doug



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