Friday, December 22, 2006

Yesterday I saw on TV how Chinese youngsters in a regular 12 hours-a-day job played computergames for clients elsewhere in the world, to enable them to reach higher playing levels. I realized: this is a new market opportunity for many young people starting their career!

Clients all over the world:

- hire a football player instead of you, when your club MUST win.
- hire someone to go to the theatre, when you have to visit your mother-in-law's birthday party
- same as above, but reversed.
- hire someone to play for you in the casino (on no cure no paybasis).
- you hate board games at home? Don't disappoint your family, hire someone to play for you.
- you see a girl you want to invite for sailing etc. and you are shy? Hire someone else to do it.

Of course you can laugh at it, but in fact it's tragic. In Western countries it wouldn't be possible just because of the exploitation of the youngsters who make such long working days. Maybe the manufacturer of the games can develop programs to play the games for you, but if that were the case then they wouldn't sell them because level 10 would be a piece of cake not worth to boast on.

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