Phase 3: Profit !

Thoughts and Blogosphere

Quite busy this week, had been trying to put myself together, but no luck…
There are some interested topic (experiments) reported last week, last talk about it

Begging

Seth concluded his experiment on begging

I must say most of us won’t take the time to do such an experiment.

Leveling an alt named after beggar, leveling it 40level and begs for 8 hours? I’ll never do it myself…

It spring lots of thought for me (Yet-Another-Thing-Want-To-Blog)… but I will not risk this idea from not publishing, I’ll just make a short list instead L

Here is a short list:

1. We tend to have a implicit thoughts about old people (See Reference), which also apply to beggars (IRL) as well. Do our despite for beggar really work as rational, or a comfortable (defensive) excuses for not helping (Social’s Subroutine)?
2. Reasoning if a person is indeed need of help before giving out the gold, seems pretty make sense to me, it’ll be much better than, “I’ll give you gold, since you asked”(Is the mount necessary is another question)
3. Is helping others that bad? E.g. the example Larisa talk about in comment a IRL’s friend first character on your realm, will you give them gold said (10g for first 10 level’s training fee)? Consider the fact, You earn money much faster than them (Since you have a 80 toons).

I didn’t make up my mind on this one yet. While a green goblin in my mind said “Don’t this will encourage slacking, and why don’t they earn their own gold?” and a pink-haired Gnome would say “It’s only cost you for selling a glyph, and they need to collect the trash on low level area, for at least 30 minutes”

I don’t know…

I used to give little change to old ladies on street, but not now, I keep thinking about it though. For the old ladies are picking cardboard box, and recycling beverage can. I know their life is harsh, that’s 160 beverage cans worth $1 USD.

The Apprentice

I love this series of blog from Gevlon I must say.

http://dalarangardens.blogspot.com/

from the first glance of the post

http://dalarangardens.blogspot.com/2009/07/mishaps-of-misguided-apprentice.html

I clicked the subscribe button on my Google reader

Gnome – Check (I grow up as a gnome mage)

Mage – Check

Sense of Humor – Check

Sarcastic – Check

Keep the good work coming, Ydraisa

Business

It had been boring recently, continuous on glyph business. Nothing special other than 2.6k /week (Try to avoid using the gold/day for weekend sells much better). With 10-30 mins play time per day on Auction Hall, I guess it’s more than enough for me. Saving up for my level Alt… (Should be able to meet my 20k milestone this few days.)

Reference:
From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism
In Freakonomics, Stephen Levitt’s surprise hit of 2005, the study of hidden (or “implicit”) ageism was brought out of the psychologist’s laboratory and into the TV studio. Levitt described how, in the US version of The Weakest Link, contestants’ voting decisions were, on average, biased against older panelists. At the stage of the game where it is in participants’ interests to vote for poor performers, older people were likely to be chosen even when younger adults had performed worse. But when contestants would benefit by choosing top-performing rivals (to eliminate the competition), they tended to choose lower-performing, older contestants. Subconsciously, the panelists simply did not want to be around older people.^[27]

P.s a post about undercover economist is still on my pending list… didn’t finish the book yet thought ;P