We can also see the split intwo of the economies of scam- one real economy for real humans, who keep the lights on. The other a economy of exponential scams, creating useless virtual products for virtual customers, commented on by virtual agents, trying to marshal and control a virtual society. If we all died out the other day, this thing could run on and on for a million years and create a gogol of virtual dollars, worth exactly one potato in the real.