Pay to people to like you

Sigo varios blogs sobre el WoW (no muchos). Hay uno que me parece bastante interesante, que habla sobre todo de la economía dentro del juego, aunque también expone muchas ideas que son interesantes en la vida real. Su última entrada da que reflexionar, os la pego a continuación, siendo la fuente http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com/2009/09/pay-to-people-to-like-you.html

"I keep getting a troll comment. My little troll(s) keep posting to almost every post as anonymous. The post is always something like "how are you feeling in the guild where you paid people to like you".

As I always said, I see trolls more than simple annoyments. These people dare to say the stupid things that the socials think, but don't tell because they know it's stupid or pointless.

This case the troll reflect to the core of the social thinking: "the point of life is to be liked/loved/respected". The (obviously social) troll cannot think of anything else than me paying for the guild to like me.

I couldn't care less if they like me or I'm the No1 target of jokes when I'm not around. I pay for raiding experience without keeping high attendance or forcing me to play differently than I want. For example I don't want to play DPS as druid. In a normal raiding guilds it would be a normal request to "come as moonkin today". Not here. When I play, I play resto, the way I want to.

I don't pay my barber to like me. I pay her to cut my hair.
I don't pay at the supermarket to like me. I pay them to give me food.
My employer doesn't pay me to like him. He pays me to do my job.

There are things, moments, experiences that we like. Some of them are done with people. Some of them cannot even be done without them. However you don't have to like the people. You just have to not sabotate their experience (can be called "respecting them").

I'm not sure if "to like a person" have a meaning. People do/want/think so many different things, that it's impossible to like every single one. You may like everything they do in a role. But people are not just one role you know. I mean you like playing squash with Peter and like having sex with Jennifer. But would you like to have sex with Peter? If not, how can you say "I like the whole Peter"? The truth is "I like good squash players when playing squash and Peter is one of them".

The point is that Peter could be replaced with Amanda assuming she is just as good in squash and you'd like playing with her just as much. If there are not enough players around to fit to your schedule, why not pay one to be there when you want to play?"

En los primeros cuatro párrafos lo que dice básicamente es que él está en una hermandad donde puede jugar cuando le da la gana y como quiere, y a cambio aporta dinero. Dice que un trol considera que eso es pagar por caerles bien, mientras que él expone que simplemente ofrece dinero virtual a cambio de jugar cuando quiere y como quiere, y le da totalmente igual lo que piensen de él mientras el cambio le parezca justo.

Explica en la siguientes lineas como normalmente no nos gusta una persona en general, en todo momento, sino sólo hacer con ella ciertas cosas. De igual manera que, como expone en varios ejemplos, podemos estar pagando por que nos den a cambio otra cosa, ya sea un bien o servicio. No estamos regalando dinero para caer bien a la otra persona y que nos dé algo a cambio, sino simplemente llevando a cabo una transacción que vemos aceptable desde las dos partes.

Cuando se trata de jugar en equipo, como vendría a ser en el WoW, nosotros ofrecemos algo que al resto le viene bien (generalmente jugar bien) y ellos nos ofrecen algo que a nosotros nos viene bien (también jugar bien). Es decir, estás haciendo eso porque crees que le sacas provecho y, si no es así, deberías rechazarlo y buscar una situación más beneficiosa para ti.

En general, en el blog este, el autor defiende continuamente ese punto de vista, considerándose a sí mismo un "goblin", ya que dentro del juego esta raza es muy negociante y es neutral, comercia con cualquiera. Y, la contrapone al punto de vistal "social", en que aceptas cambios desfavorables para ti sólo por caer bien a los demás.