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		soared on Feb 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food... Similarly, people in Venezuela play RuneScape, an mmo, and sell virtual currency as a full time job: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/fe... Venezuelans farm gold and indirectly sell it to wealthy Americans. $0.70 for 1MM gold is nothing for an American, but adds up to meaningful amounts in Venezuela if your monthly salary is $4 USD.

npteljes on Feb 19, 2022 [–]

I already knew about these, but thinking about it, it's not less surreal than remote controlling a robot in another country for pennies. Even has a wiki on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming

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