Work at my job has slowed down to a crawl...oh, yeah, I work for a book manufacturing company, in the Electronic Imposition Dept. When the work is slow, usually they give people unpaid days off & just keep one on each shift to cover EI in case something comes thru that's really hot, like a rework or whatever. I like to volunteer to be the one with time off, but with Mr. I-Got-Your-Flu-Bug Hubby at home I've been the one to volunteer to stay. It's all good - nothing to do but sit on my rear, get paid, and read! We do a lot of printings for universities, journals & such - not a lot of general interest stuff, but I really get into some of it. There's a new quarterly journal out - can't find it right this minute, so I can't tell U the name but it publishes articles on socio-economic & politcal ramifications of games and their communities. In their first issue they had this really fascinating article on gold-harvesting - can you believe that China actually has gamer sweatshops? People actually play games on 12-hour shifts and do nothing but earn gold (or gil, or whatever the coinage is for that particular game) to sell online for cash. Call me Mrs. Naive, I knew that harvesting is a running problem for the gamer communities, and I have known a couple of people that have sold their earnings or weapons online, but it never crossed my mind that there may be the equivalent of a Nike outlet going on! The Chinese get paid the US equivalent of $3 a day. Almost makes you want to move to China...NOT! Any thoughts on the subject, O Gamespot Readers? If I can find where I put the stupid PDF I'll post the name of the journal - it's a subscription-only deal but it's really trippy stuff & worth looking into if your'e interested in the broad view of our little pixellated world.  Hope I'm not commiting any legal argy-bargy here, but I'm really interested in hearing opinions on this.