[MUD-Dev] Criminalize Community Volunteers?

[David H. Loeser Jr]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian 'Psychochild' Green" <brian at psychochild.org>
To: <mud-dev at kanga.nu>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Criminalize Community Volunteers?


[snip]
> Now for the real rant portion of this post.  I find it disgusting that
> so many people seem willing to defend this practice by saying "The money
> isn't there" or that "Online RPGs just wouldn't be made" if companies
> couldn't exploit free employees.  What kind of defense is that?  That's
> like saying, "McDonalds can't stay in business if we have to pay our
> employees actual wages.  Can we just give them a few burgers at the end
> of the shift?"  How far would that fly?  It's worse in our case, because
> commercial MUDs are primarily a service, not a product; and we have come
> to expect "volunteers" to help us provide that service.
[snip]

Ok Brian, I don't claim to know just how much the online RPGs are raking in
but... I think it digusting that volunteers would ask for monetary
compensation and
or to be treated as employees. Open Websters or run on over to
dictionary.com and look
up volunteer.

I see this as another "good thing gone bad" because a few wise-owls decided
they should
be compensated for their volunteerism.


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% David "Dak Lozar" Loeser
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%%% Venusoft Inc.
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