yup, it's just an avatar economy! a desktop icon, not the application!

they made the lead of an economy tied to the real world into the gold of their 'second life' 3d artefact, where numbers cuddle and multiply in the test tube of their imaginations, untied to such gross concepts as resources, externalities, er hello!, just because it's outside your tinted limo window doesn't mean it's not happening, let alone concern to a future human existence of any quality on this planet, or for any of the doomed denizens who can't afford the comfort-buffer.

2-year-olds have more sense!

the media didn't see it coming... they were paid to turn a blind eye.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~