Drawing from an fascinating upcoming documentary by UC San Diego grad student Ge Jin (YouTube clip from his film here), the MTV segment features interviews Christian Louboutin with workers and managers of several gold farms, which resemble a cross between a 24 hour LAN party and a very shabby college dorm. By the segment's estimate, an astounding half million Chinese now make a living - about $100 a month - from the acquisition and sale of WoW gold to US and EU gamers. Why is this is the future of work online? Consider the numbers, youth, and low wages of the gold farmers, and wow gold the growing interest in outsourcing tasks online. Amazon recently launched a non-game application for this, known as the Amazon Mechanical Turk.

In Second Life, a Hollywood abercrombie clothing production company is outsourcing its Second Life projects to its Vietnamese branch, where highly-skilled workers can create professional 3D environments for a fraction of the cost, were it done here. It's easy to see how the Chinese farmers of Warcraft might evolve into the blue collar juicy couture sunglasses workers of the 3D Internet.

MTV producer Matt Sunbulli put Jewelry us in touch with Ge Jin, and we asked him about this phenomenon, and sought his own thoughts on its relation to the future of work online.I have a friend who had been operating a gold farms in Shanghai since 2003. So his gold farm is the first one I visited. My friend's gold farm closed in 2005, so did most mbt shoes sale gold farms in Shanghai. Many of them migrated to smaller cities with lower housing and human resource costs.