[MUD-Dev] business models

[Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Mihaly [mailto:the_logos at achaea.com]
> Sent: 29 May 2001 10:58
> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] business models

> On Fri, 25 May 2001, william ralph renner wrote:
 
>> 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.

Then again, one might wonder how much income tax they are paying on
that 150USD a month. They might not want to get litigious as a
result...

Dan
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