Wow...for those members of the 101st Fighting Keyboard Commandos who are in imminent danger of getting kicked out of Mom's basement or cut off from their Cheezey Snax or both, here's a new way to make some quick cash...help others cheat at on-line games. Shoot, they're republicans, so the cheating and corruption gene is there at birth ... moral dilema? No problem. Cheat for profit? Next stop, Congress...
One of China's newest factories operates here in the basement of an old warehouse. Posters of World of Warcraft and Magic Land hang above a corps of young people glued to their computer screens, pounding away at their keyboards in the latest hustle for money.
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One huge site here in Fuzhou has over 100 computers in a series of large, dark rooms. About 70 players could be seen playing quietly one weekday afternoon, while some players slept by the keyboard.
"We recruit through newspaper ads," said the 30-something owner, whose workers range from 18 to 25 years old. "They all know how to play online games, but they're not willing to do hard labor."
See, when they're done fighting that war of ideas ... after a hard day of throwing themselves on those intellectual grenades tossed by Howard Dean to save their buddies, they can head off and make a buck or two off an on-line game to help Mom with the rent. After all Cheezy Snax like Freedom, aren't Free... good thing for them though, like talk, they are cheap.
posted by Jo Fish on 12.09.05 at 09:07 AM
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Don't forget that the game playing is a useful learning tool. It teaches you that life is cheap, and people are disposable on your path to glory. The story also mentioned games in which many monsters and ogres are killed, which encourages our Goldfasaner to believe in their own racial and genetic superiority over their opponents, which are naturally considered Untermenschen.
