Tasko Pal
THE IRIS
United Freemen Alliance
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Posted - 2009.03.17 14:18:00 -
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 Originally by: Sir Ibex
What the hell do these people want from me? What experience are they talking about when all I did in HS and College was play things like Starcraft and Diablo? And by golly, that's what I SHOULD have been doing back then. I was a teenager! I tried the employment agencies, but do you know what they tell me? "Sir... Are you aware of how tough these times are? We are experiencing an ECONOMIC CRISIS! People more qualified than YOU cant even get a job! So what do you expect from us?" (Got a little sidetracked there.. I know.)
There's a better question. Why do you expect those things? I think Landrassa has a good point. You're in the lucky position that you can get experience even if you can't get employed. Maybe you can earn some isk by setting up a corp's website or similar activity.
Bottom line for CCP is that employed people are where the money is. Unemployed people don't have the money, but they do have the time. The PLEX market trades that time for that money. The high cost of PLExes right now is due to a lot of people with spare time.
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Tasko Pal
THE IRIS
United Freemen Alliance
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Posted - 2009.03.20 12:08:00 -
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Originally by: Mme Pinkerton
Originally by: Hexxx
I hate entitlement attitudes. 
The markets are coldly efficient, amoral, unsympathetic, and absolutely beautiful. You earn your way, you don't get it handed to you. Don't like the way things are? Do something about it...earn more money.
Biggest mistake people make is thinking that time spent earning money and amount earned are somehow explicitly linked. 
Biggest mistake people make is mistaking price for value.
Nah, Hexxx had it right. For someone in a market, value is what someone is willing to pay for what you have and vice versa. In practice, a large number of the market participants have labor at their disposal so there is a way to exchange labor for money. For example, selling the labor to someone else or using your own labor rather than buying a service.
In any case, price is value in a market. Sure, there are numerous labor theories of value as the above link indicates. These either price labor via the market, or incorrectly via some other mechanism. And given that a good or service is so much more than just the labor, such an approach that uses only labor won't derive the proper value.
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