[extropy-chat] REALITY: virtual and intellectual property rightsand values

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Acy James Stapp <astapp at fizzfactorgames.com>
wrote:
> At what point does the government come in and start
> taxing your in-game
> income?

When it can be directly used to purchase significant
amounts of out-of-game property, which in this case
would be when it's converted to ("sold for", from
their
perspective) real world currency.  From their point of
view, you don't realize any actual income until that
point (literally: you "real"-ize it).