[MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items

[Matthew Mihaly]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Raph Koster wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu [mailto:mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> > Matthew Mihaly
> > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 9:54 PM
> > To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
> > Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items
> > 
> > Publically traded
> > companies have a mandate to create shareholder value, and any other goal
> > (such as creating an 'ethical' game) is negligent management.
> 
> Unless an 'ethical' game leads to greater profits.

Right, though here the goal is still maximizing shareholder value (not
profits...maximixing profits is not the goal, though I'm not going to go
into corporate valuation here). The ethical game is just a means to the
end, not the end in and of itself. 

--matt




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