The World Is Not Enough

Play this song while you read this blog:

Garbage tells it truly. The world is not enough. But, it is such a perfect place to start.

Okay, all you over-achievers out there. Time to step it up.

The world is not enough. This guide is meant to help you world dominatrices everywhere increase your bases of power, until you can chuckle softly into the night, secure in the knowledge that you have created an Unconquerable Empire.

But why stop at that? There are entire galaxies to explore.

What? You say. There aren’t any other planets with sentient life. What’s the point in taking over empty galaxies?

You are looking in the wrong place for your real estate, my friend.

Take a look at Second Life. People are spending real money on virtual real estate. They can’t ever go there in physical form. They can’t ever vacation there, or house their family there.

They can, however, turn a profit.

People are buying real estate in Second Life, breaking it up into parcels of land, and then selling it for a profit. So, not only do we have people buying something that isn’t there, but we have people reselling it to other people, thus giving it value.

This is not an uncommon system. Take a look at the stock market.

Semi-accurate crash course in the stock market according to Leanne Heller: Company A is worth a bundle. But Company A’s stock is worth MORE than a bundle. This is because the stock’s worth is based on what people are willing to pay, or what they THINK the company is worth. So, people are constantly inflating (or deflating) a company’s stock based on the value that others assign to it, based on the expectation of profitability.

If people find value in real estate on Second Life, it has a value. If you think about it, the actual world’s real estate system is almost as absurd as Second Life’s virtual system.

If people say it has value, should you own it? Is it worth jumping on the bandwagon and purchasing imaginary real estate because other people are willing to buy it? Millions of investors say yes.

Or will it end up like the tulip crash in Holland? That was when the assigned value of tulips increased exponentially, to the point of ridiculousness, and then the bottom dropped out and tulips (and everyone’s investments) were worthless.

When do other people’s opinions of value matter? How do you know when a world is worth dominating? And is this world enough? Or, is it just another place to start?