Not so virtual slavery

Vice-president of IT security group Cyveillance, Eric Olson, has predicted with the increased connectivity of the National Broadband Network wage slavery and sweatshop labour in virtual worlds will also be made possible with the NBN as workers sit at computers to harvest in-game commodities for paying customers.

“This is a problem that doesn’t exist unless you have the fast connections online universes require,” he said. “Somewhere in the world, there are people being beaten with sticks to play video games..."

Yup , real-life capitalism rears its ugly head even in the virtual world of computer gaming.