Buying reputations...and turnips,

[matthew X]

 Reputation is more properly about beliefs about future outcome, about bets.

Gamble on Anarchy Dr Rat,Treason magazine,1982.
Reps get carried forward, the best reputations of the best of us all 
forward into the future.Anarchy for example has a good reputation in spite 
of some attempted perversion of the word by
authoritarians (ANARCHY! disorder,chaos bushit.)and 
libertarians,('crypto-anarchy','anarcho-capitalist,')
Lets get back to basics and define modern Anarchy,modern Crypto-Anarchy.Its 
already emerging.

Re: Buying reputations...and turnips

[Daniel J. Boone]

 Of course, in a more nuanced understanding of reputations, it would
be
 appreciated by Everquest players that the skills that got a player
to
 Grand Wazoo are not transferrable when the nym is sold.

And indeed, it is so appreciated.  Ebayer is just about the worst
epithet someone can be called in the Everquest world.  Ebayers are
feared and dreaded, because they breed chaos and random unanticipated
meaningless instant death.

But the economics are compelling.  There are MANY specific items of
gear in Everquest that can each take 50+ hours of gameplay to obtain.
If I were in a position to spend that same time doing professional
work at $100 per hour, the opportunity cost to me of obtaining that
item could exceed five grand.  Viewed in that light, purchasing a
character on eBay that is pre-equipped with, say, four such items for
a mere $700 is a downright bargain.  Effectively, I'd be paying some
fourteen-year-old twenty-nine cents an hour for his ample spare time.