Bulk Brokerage
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Posted - 2009.05.10 13:08:00 -
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 Originally by: Jazric
Its difficult to do the mining/manufacturing thing in any type of real volume. At least enough volume to have a significant affect on the market. I guess you could do it with frigs, but if you are building frigs when you have the ability to build something else you are wasting your slots.
I cannot believe you all missed this absolute gem by Jazric, when you are all trying so hard to directly argue line by line linear logic.
Lets try this:
1. Minerals are free if you choose not to assign a value to your time in EVE.
2. Minerals are not free if you choose to assign a value to your time in EVE.
As an economic law, all time has value and all activity has an opportunity cost EXCEPT for the most optimal activity. For example, typing this post will cost me X isk in lost business, so I am forgoing one leisure activity to pursue another. Opportunity costs are real - just because they do not show up on the balance sheet does not mean that they were not incurred.
The argument about the .01 ISK sellers is certainly for another day - again, oversimplifying because there is a broker (NPC) in the middle.
As others have pointed out - this is a game. People are going to do whatever it is they want to do. Now, I personally find it amusing when people insist on building themselves because they cannot stand the idea that some one else may be purchasing their minerals to build an item. There is also the absolutely MASSIVE group of people who insist on building items simply because they want to say they built it - for their own gratification, for perceived status, whatever.
At the end of the day - whether you assign it or not, your time in EVE does have a value in the EVE economy, and those minerals are not truly free. You may elect to value them as such, and others may elect to look unfavorably upon those who do not recognize the value of those minerals.
It is just a game, but that games happens to be, in-part, a simulated economy. One group should permit the second group their fun in just experiencing some of what it would be like to compete in the game. The second group should permit the first group their fun in competing in the game.
As a matter of fact, those of you who love to mine and build for the sake of building, I'm some one who likes to broker deals for the sake of brokering deals.
Feel free to holler at me anytime - we'll do business together.  |