[MUD-Dev] business models

[Matt Mihaly]

On Fri, 25 May 2001, william ralph renner wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, Matt Mihaly wrote:
 
>> Boy, I've gotta say, that's a _lot_ of admin time for $200.
 
> While that is a lot of GM time, keep in mind these GMs are paid
> very, very little for said time.  Under the Simutronics model, the
> GMs are semi-volunteers, selected from the general player population
> and put through a training process.  I've been told that they pay on
> a monthly basis, and that it comes to about $150 a month (figure
> unconfirmed and two years old).

That's interesting. One wonders if they're worried about being
sued. Some might say (not me actually) that paying volunteers makes
them employees who are being paid less than minimum wage.

--matt

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