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April 18, 2004

Dibbell earns $47k annualized in Ultima Online

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Posted by Seb Paquet

Journalist Julian Dibbell managed to bring in nearly $4,000 (US no less) in his last month trading nonexistent (okay, virtual) goods in the multiplayer online game Ultima Online. There's an article on the accomplishment in Wired News and the discussion is underway over at Terra Nova. The downside of this is obviously that, at the end of the day, the experience feels more like work than play. Says Dibbell:
"I did start this thinking, 'Could this be a new career?'" he says. "And I found it's a job like any other, and who I am is a writer and not a businessman."

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1. Seth Finkelstein on April 20, 2004 12:46 AM writes...

Hmm. Lots of people make small amounts of money trading in "rights to attend performances" (i.e., "ticket scalping"), which at the end of the day, is about as tangible. Maybe we've just internalized this property of "right to hear so-and-so make noise at such-and-such a time in a designated place"

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