When Burni invited me to a conversation and I checked his employment history, I got excited. I was facing a 9 and a half years old veteran. Someone who seen the heyday of BoB. Someone who've been here before the Goons. His only corporation was the NPC corp, which could mean only two things: he is a master trader, or a front alt covering some old, important fellow.
I couldn't wait to hear his proposal:
I couldn't wait to hear his proposal:
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I don't get it. Why didn't you give him the isk?
Why would I give money to a random beggar?
because you are rich.
The idea that the rich should give the poor is communism itself.
ha, same person asked me a few days before.
She invited me to a conv, while afk. When I got back and saw it, i was also very exited what this old one wanted from me.
S(he) gave you an opportunity to feel pity. You didn't, or didn't enough to pay for the release. Selling things people don't want shouldn't work. But it does. Sometimes.
It's a video game. he wasn't asked to donate to UNICEF to feed starving people. No pity involved.
It was probably one of those tests of character...
You know them - a rich man disguised as a beggar asks you for change so that he can have a warm meal. If you spare some, he suddenly reveals that he's some major league suit and gives you a lot of money, saying that there's still some hope in this world.
I'ts not like giving another player isk is difficult. And 10mil has to be like pocket change to you.
@CFC_Grunt: because someone is out there testing for dumbness and if he finds a dumb, rewards him. Makes sense.
@Gevlon
This is dumb only if you are solo and don't give a damn about anyone else.
Consider this a test of extent to which you are solo.
Btw, i would probably also tell that person that i can't just give him money. I'd give him opportunity to earn these 10 mil from me specifically, though, instead of sending him off to do NPC missions.
If he's been asking 100 people a day since 2005 and gets a 1% hit rate of 10 million isk then he's made about 32 billion isk just from being social.
"The idea that the rich should give the poor is communism itself."
no. if at all it is socialism.
communism would be that there are no rich and poor.
As someone with heavy socialist political leanings, I would kindly ask that paying out to beggars not be associated with socialism. That's like stating shortsighted fiscal policy is capitalist. All sides have idiots.
When you pay a beggar, you give them money for a service; the service being begging. If you pay them to perform an action, they are likely to keep performing that action in hopes of more pay.
While I believe that no one should be denied the basics of survival, regardless of how incompetent or stupid, there is no excuse for being a beggar in a virtual world with no survival requirements.
Getting people to give you isk can be a fairly profitable profession.
The mistake people make is assuming that the person asking for isk has no isk.
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