02-15-2007, 10:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-15-2007, 10:21 PM by Rhydderch Hael.)
Quote:As stupid ideas go, this isn't nearly as stupid as people paying real money for virtual assets in the first place...Unfortunately, the exact same appellation can be applied to anyone who purchases a copy of Windows Vista, Mac OS X, Adobe Photoshop, or even Diablo II. You're paying money for computer data, a copy of program information.
Now, how one uses that purchased information is what gets hinky: be it for professional productivity, education, mercantile entrepreneurship, or farming for green dragons' eggs in the mythical realm of Catassia. You can argue the worthiness of the employment, but what is being employed is practically the same: time and money spent for computer information as a tool to attain some means.
Thus, I don't see this quite as silly. Then again, that means I don't see the taxation quite as silly, either.
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