There used to be whole towns where you'd get entirely paid in, and shop with, corporate funny money
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/rush-ghost-town https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/morning-star-zinc-m...
Basically, say Blizzard compensates you $20k in Blizzard bucks, and you auction off $20k worth of items at a reduced rate, you end up taking $20k * discount rate from Blizzard’s revenue, roughly speaking.
You cannot do that, ToS forbids that, and if you were caught i expect that consequences would be harsher than just a ban.
Seems not too many tech people like history: if they did we would not be looping Greenspuns 10th rule derivatives on everything ; nosql, microservices, js, query languages, etc.
Nosql usually ends up as a really bad version of a rdbms with a query language that is a very botched version of sql. And then we move to postgres as it is actually better in every way.
Javascript was literally (the author wanted to implement scheme but that did not look like Java) a really badly done version of Scheme which had to look like Java. So this is directly Greenspuns 10th rule.
And we can go on: all these things have solid and scientifically sound implementations and yet we reinvent the wheel, badly and then usually drop it or try to reverse the damage by actually thinking about history for a second (wasm).
