I ran across this enticingly titled article the other day, and thought it was well worth passing along to anybody with an interest in MMORPGs and the connection between virtual worlds and real money.
The concept is probably not new to you if you play these things, but there is something compelling and rather intimidating to me about the focused mania involved in the process of discovering and exploiting every variable in a virtual world to make a sizable profit in the real one.
To be fair, it's also annoying if you happen to play video games for a bit of fun now and then to discover that some master of fantasyland economics has cornered a market on that Stone of Unlikely Origin you need to evolve your Dwarven Knight into a Staggering Patriarch or however your game goes. Nevertheless, the hacker energy described by the story is something pretty awesome.
So, anyone else think it's a very weird future we're stuck in where people can make a decent living through outsourcing video game players?