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I stopped publishing business data after I published my findings about the importance of large corp size in nullsec. I considered it an ultimate defeat of the business approach as TEST is as communist as it can be and wins like no one before. What I've found is still true, however it doesn't necessarily mean the end of capitalism. Now I think that the automated, uniformized mega-corp that provides largely asocial life to the little guy (but very much not to those who aspire for more) is merely the optimal form of communism, a system where everything is for free but the little guy must shut up and stay in the line. However I can't ignore two things: every single nullsec alliance works on a communist basis (the member don't have to pay for services the system provides and gets no salary for the actions he does for the system). The more interesting is the Taggart Transdimensional corporation which requires only ideological objectivism for joining and they left the nullsec scene as soon as the wormholes shown up. If capitalism would be working in nullsec, these guys would surely make it work.
To understand the problem, let me return to my own business report. I've been doing the same thing since June: hauling +5% hardwirings (100M implants) between the hubs and also station trade them in all the hubs. I posted the item list many times. I've announced my income to show how easy it is to make titanic money here. After I thought that capitalism is defeated and my job will be to find the most livable form of communism, I scaled back on my trading. I used to update prices twice a day like a clockwork skipping days only when real life kept me away from my computer. After this I updated only once and may even skip that if I don't feel like trading. I expected my income to freefall down to 5-10B/month just enough to keep my accounts running in EVE Offline mode.
Secondly it seems I have little competition so decreasing the update frequency did not push me back. In other words, I was overkilling before that. Now this is a problem. It shows that people don't really care about income, otherwise they'd come and claim my goldmine. The few other businessmen have enough income in their niche, not wanting mine. To have capitalism, you need capitalists, people who are motivated to gain ISK. However - like all other serious income source - it needs serious investment in time, capital and knowledge and many people don't want that. If I want to find some capitalist-selfish project, I have to look for some other income source: something small that can be done with little up-front cost. It also needs to be grindable, something someone can do for hours if he wants money now. In other words, I must find/create a capitalism-supporting middle class. So I have to think of something that is small, grindable and multiplicative. It doesn't hurt if it's fun to keep people in it. Finding such won't be easy. WH-s and null aren't for solo players or network of individuals, if you want to carve a space out of it, you need to join an already established (communist) group. But I'll figure out. I dedicate my following posts to brainstorm up a capitalist-selfish scheme that works in EVE-online.
PS: yes, I've just reached 300B total value. A small amount, 6.4B is in my passive income fund: I train now not 1 but 5 supercapital pilots for sale. 95.7B is spent on my "personal stuff". Things that doesn't affect my income generation. The largest part of it is the 65B I gave to TEST, the rest is money spent training my pilots (logi/carrier, Ragnarok, Dread, nullsec industrialist) and money spent on PLEX-ing the account of my main and the account of my girlfriend. Some of these assets are regainable like assets being liquidated in nullsec, some are permanently lost. The rest of the money, almost 200B is in ISK or in my wares for sale.
I stopped publishing business data after I published my findings about the importance of large corp size in nullsec. I considered it an ultimate defeat of the business approach as TEST is as communist as it can be and wins like no one before. What I've found is still true, however it doesn't necessarily mean the end of capitalism. Now I think that the automated, uniformized mega-corp that provides largely asocial life to the little guy (but very much not to those who aspire for more) is merely the optimal form of communism, a system where everything is for free but the little guy must shut up and stay in the line. However I can't ignore two things: every single nullsec alliance works on a communist basis (the member don't have to pay for services the system provides and gets no salary for the actions he does for the system). The more interesting is the Taggart Transdimensional corporation which requires only ideological objectivism for joining and they left the nullsec scene as soon as the wormholes shown up. If capitalism would be working in nullsec, these guys would surely make it work.
To understand the problem, let me return to my own business report. I've been doing the same thing since June: hauling +5% hardwirings (100M implants) between the hubs and also station trade them in all the hubs. I posted the item list many times. I've announced my income to show how easy it is to make titanic money here. After I thought that capitalism is defeated and my job will be to find the most livable form of communism, I scaled back on my trading. I used to update prices twice a day like a clockwork skipping days only when real life kept me away from my computer. After this I updated only once and may even skip that if I don't feel like trading. I expected my income to freefall down to 5-10B/month just enough to keep my accounts running in EVE Offline mode.
Secondly it seems I have little competition so decreasing the update frequency did not push me back. In other words, I was overkilling before that. Now this is a problem. It shows that people don't really care about income, otherwise they'd come and claim my goldmine. The few other businessmen have enough income in their niche, not wanting mine. To have capitalism, you need capitalists, people who are motivated to gain ISK. However - like all other serious income source - it needs serious investment in time, capital and knowledge and many people don't want that. If I want to find some capitalist-selfish project, I have to look for some other income source: something small that can be done with little up-front cost. It also needs to be grindable, something someone can do for hours if he wants money now. In other words, I must find/create a capitalism-supporting middle class. So I have to think of something that is small, grindable and multiplicative. It doesn't hurt if it's fun to keep people in it. Finding such won't be easy. WH-s and null aren't for solo players or network of individuals, if you want to carve a space out of it, you need to join an already established (communist) group. But I'll figure out. I dedicate my following posts to brainstorm up a capitalist-selfish scheme that works in EVE-online.
PS: yes, I've just reached 300B total value. A small amount, 6.4B is in my passive income fund: I train now not 1 but 5 supercapital pilots for sale. 95.7B is spent on my "personal stuff". Things that doesn't affect my income generation. The largest part of it is the 65B I gave to TEST, the rest is money spent training my pilots (logi/carrier, Ragnarok, Dread, nullsec industrialist) and money spent on PLEX-ing the account of my main and the account of my girlfriend. Some of these assets are regainable like assets being liquidated in nullsec, some are permanently lost. The rest of the money, almost 200B is in ISK or in my wares for sale.
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