{"id":22756,"date":"2007-05-14T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2007-05-14T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T18:33:00","slug":"second-life-inversion-para-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/second-life-inversion-para-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Life: Investment for Real Life?."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The trend in all the figures relating to the phenomenon Second<\/span><\/span> Life<\/span><\/span><\/a> (SL<\/span><\/span>) has exceeded even the most optimistic forecasts, to the extent that it seems<\/span> Of course, we are now in the second generation of the Internet. But the interrelationship between SL<\/span><\/span> and the real world (real life<\/span><\/span> o RL<\/span><\/span>) is beyond my imagination. In this virtual world, we can all live together in the form of humanoids<\/span> (avatars) in search of all sorts of things: young people looking for simple games, fun and leisure, making friends, sex, forums, prostitution, politics, drugs, the economy, art, ghettos<\/span><\/span>, religion, training and education, sectarianism, purchases and rentals of all kinds, finance, etc., etc., etc., etc\u2026 in short, life itself. What\u2019s more, all of this is complemented by its own currency, the L$ (Linden dollar<\/span><\/span>) which makes it a Monopoly<\/span><\/span> o Cash flow<\/a> fascinating and universal. But Let\u2019s explore this further<\/span> a little more on that last point: \"\"<\/a>The L$<\/span>. The current share price fluctuates<\/span> around 275 L$\/US<\/span><\/span>$. There are already banks in SL<\/span><\/span> which pay interest at a rate of 0.10% per day, loans\u2014both usurious and non-usurious\u2014with obvious risks. Also, stock markets in SL<\/span><\/span> which fluctuate, with varying degrees of rigour, between supply and demand, with risks that are also evident. But amidst this apparent financial farce, banks emerge that RL<\/span><\/span> with spectacular venues in various parts of the unfathomable SL<\/span><\/span>. At present, they do not carry out banking transactions in RL<\/span><\/span>, but I suspect that as soon as a way is found to verify the identity of both parties, a whole new world will open up for online banking and, above all, for L$. In exactly the same way that certificates secure transactions in the internet<\/span><\/span> in today\u2019s retail sector online<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n
This opens our minds to endless investment opportunities. Opportunities that will become common practice before most of us realise it, and which legislators will regulate by the time some have become millionaires and many have ruined<\/span>. At the moment, banks and multinational companies<\/span><\/span> in the retail sector have established themselves in SL<\/span><\/span> without a clear purpose as yet.\"\"<\/a> It seems as though the employees who have been assigned exclusively to act as avatars to assist other avatars who visit their virtual and extremely creative<\/span><\/span> head offices, are unaware of exactly what their assigned duties are. It is as if these companies were swarming about and dealing with infor<\/span><\/span>automatically<\/span><\/span> to those interested in their financial services in a light<\/span><\/span> hoping that their authorities will take the first step towards the financial maelstrom that lies ahead. It reminds me of the feeling we might have when we see huge, state-of-the-art facilities that have just been completed, with all the staff in their posts and sporting brand-new uniforms, waiting for the official opening and the ensuing flood of customers. But this time we\u2019re talking about SL<\/span><\/span>, where anything is possible, where the date and time of the opening are yet to be decided, where the market laws established in RL<\/span><\/span> Are they not applicable, or are they? If so, why not?
Here and there we\u2019ll see a island<\/a> financial, a a virtual and tax haven<\/span> where banks, tax advisers, investment advisers, loan sharks, philanthropists, estate agents, casinos, NGOs, venture capital firms, family<\/span><\/span> offices<\/span><\/span>, gurus<\/span><\/span> financial institutions, stock exchanges, options markets, futures, commodities, land managers, construction companies, notaries, solicitors, trusts<\/span><\/span>, insurance companies, etc., etc. And all of this \u2013 absolutely all of it \u2013 is available at SL<\/span><\/span> y RL<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n
The truth is, it\u2019s all a bit beyond me. It makes my head spin, yet I\u2019m fascinated by it. Perhaps the progression we sense will soon be subject to a controlling and moderating factor that will expose my shortcomings. Legislate SL<\/span><\/span> from RL<\/span><\/span> It will be very difficult, and so far humanity has shown that the internet is essentially about freedom, particularly in its early days. But here we are talking about freedom and L$, a currency that could become the world\u2019s leading currency, although I don\u2019t think the central banks of the Western world will allow that to happen.\"\"<\/a>What I find exciting and inevitable is that, at least for a while, SL<\/span><\/span> can make many people\u2019s financial dreams come true at the expense of the taxation<\/span><\/span> and current legislation. Although, on the other hand, I find it regrettable that it is also becoming an economic nightmare for others, who will fall prey to scams, abuse and deception that go unpunished and are free from any legislation (just as in real life). But despite all the dire predictions about the internet in its early days, \u00abe <\/span>pure<\/span><\/span> if <\/span>moves<\/span><\/span>\u00ab, and our reality can no longer be imagined without its virtual counterpart.\u201d.<\/div>\n

Whatever may lie ahead, we too will be there, side by side with other financial institutions, watching one another, eagerly awaiting the imminent day of inaugural madness when we can show the whole of humanity what we are capable of doing with their assets of RL<\/span>, including their L$<\/span>.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La progresi\u00f3n de todas las cifras relacionadas con el fen\u00f3meno Second Life (SL) supera las previsiones m\u00e1s optimistas, hasta el punto que parece claro que estamos ante la segunda generaci\u00f3n de Internet. Pero la interrelaci\u00f3n entre SL y el mundo real (real life o RL) desborda mi imaginaci\u00f3n. En este mundo virtual podemos convivir todos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}