A 27-year-old grad student from Australia paid over $26,000 for an island in the game Entropia. It sounds crazy, but by cashing in the money he makes from taxing game users who visit his island, he claims to make over $100,000 a year in real money. This is the ultimate realization of my childhood dream of cashing in my Monopoly money, but it was only realized through what must have been thousands of other game players so engrained in this virtual reality that they are willing to pay real money to use his virtual island. Who knows what it will take for people like this to realize they are wasting away their life. Perhaps one day when their avatar gets so addicted to some video game that he does nothing but stare at a screen all day they will wake up and realize that it's just a game.
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