{"id":58,"date":"2012-03-12T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T18:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2012-03-12T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T18:24:59","slug":"for-the-win-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/2012\/03\/12\/for-the-win-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Win: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/ftw\/download\/\">For The Win<\/a>, concluding the tale of online workers rights. The story ends with the characters all uniting, taking the struggle for works right to a new level. Well the characters face real-world violence, leading to the death of several characters, the overall sense is of victor. Ashok, the economist, creates what is essentially a Ponzi scheme in the virtual worlds, which forces the game companies to allow the game farmers to work and sell to players. The virtual union and real-world unions unite, and a gold age begins.<\/p>\n<p>I found the ending to be hopelessly optimistic. The main part that bothers me is the Ponzi\u00a0scheme\u00a0in order to hold the virtual economy hostage to force the game companies to allow gold farming. In reality there would be no way that game companies would submit to such a\u00a0ridiculous\u00a0events- they have absolute control over the virtual economy and can fix what ever attempted scheme that golf farmers would attempt to pull. One cannot\u00a0challenge\u00a0the absolute\u00a0authority\u00a0in a virtual world- otherwise they would not be the absolute\u00a0authority. The overall impression the book left me with was that something needs to be done about the workers rights of online workers &#8211; they are far to easy to abuse in the real world. However, the book seems to assume certain things about the virtual worlds which, in my\u00a0experience, are not that way in the actual instance of virtual worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished reading For The Win, concluding the tale of online workers rights. The story ends with the characters all uniting, taking the struggle for works right to a new level. Well the characters face real-world violence, leading to the death &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/2012\/03\/12\/for-the-win-part-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":2,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"sfetter","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/author\/sfetter\/"},"qubely_comment":2,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Finished reading For The Win, concluding the tale of online workers rights. The story ends with the characters all uniting, taking the struggle for works right to a new level. Well the characters face real-world violence, leading to the death &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}