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Actually some people are making a LIVING from playing "Sim" type online games, it's big business. In the real world you can buy and sell virtual money, goods and services. You can RENT an Island from the owner, who created it, and you pay the rent in online dollars which can then be turned into real dollars.

In China some people are paid to do nothing more than collect or earn credits through simple mundane online process' that generate rewards in these Sim worlds.