As synthetic worlds grow in importance, we'll see scholars, legal analysts, and game industry experts under increasing pressure to generate sensible guidelines for different aspects of the practice.

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It turns out that the way humans are made, the software-based approach seems to have much more success.

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There's no economic puzzle here. Where there's money to be made, there will be people out to make it. Where some gamers are playing for fun, others are pursuing a new kind of day-trading game and those two factions are trying to co-exist.

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We can and should view synthetic worlds as essentially unregulated playgrounds for economic organization.

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