(12-15-2014, 06:22 PM)C Wrote:(12-15-2014, 05:24 PM)Kage Wrote: Your questioning it implies that there is something wrong or devious in the practice of it.
There is none. It's not a thing. It simply is.
What -is- a thing is the generosity and kindness of those who simply relinquish their plots to people, whether set up here or elsewhere. That is a thing.
See, now that actually makes no sense whatsoever. SE's housing system is their thing, and we don't have a lot of direct control over it. The practice of RPC members charging other RPC members to let them be there when they relinquish their house is a thing. It's our thing.
You can't look at it and say it simply is, as if we had nothing to do with it. It's part of our culture as RPC members. Part of our identity now. It's our thing because we choose to make it so.
I'll totally give you a discount on RP, though, Kage. 50% off my normal rates, because I like you.
I think it's as other people have pointed out here, honestly. It's just the way economics works. It's a commodity that is rare and people are willing to pay an expensive price for it. It's not unlike other questionable markets in the world: if no one wanted it, there would be no one paying gil for it and it wouldn't be a thing. The fact that people pay money for it means that it's at least coveted enough by an amount of people to uphold it. If people would stop paying for it, people would stop trying to sell it.Â
Is there something wrong with it? I don't know. It's not for me to really judge. I just feel it's supply and demand at work.
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