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Thursday, October 2, 2014

        Game work shop or better known as "gold farm" is a billion dollar business in the city of Nanjing, China where a young man by the name of  Li Qiwen works half of the day with out any breaks. the "players" only get 3 days out of the month for a break and and get paid ~1.25 USD dollars a day. As far as the video goes the work place looks like a cell, it does not have any windows to look outside and the food and shelter is provided by the company but the quality is very poor. In the video they compared to a dorm but many will see it a cell because at least on a dorm you have choices and they do not have any options. The players are also migrants so that has to do a lot with who are the people that they are hiring because a person with a bad criminal record cannot get hired maybe working at a fast food place but the owners of this will hire them.
        The way it works is that the players provide a service to the company by playing the games and the more monsters they kill the more online money they get. With that money you can purchase power ups and special powers in the game but you have to play for a long time to get them. So what the "gold farmers" do is that they accumulate so much gold coins that the owners sell it to Americans that play World Of Warcraft for real US currency. And not only do they get the money for play the games but the USD is higher/weighs more then the Yuan that they have. So the owners are actually getting more while paying so little for the workers. The conditions that they live in are horrific they get a bed that looks like it came from a garbage truck.

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