Chade wrote of real estate and value on SL in his most recent post.

How is value attributed to particular activities and objects in SL? What social categories and hidden and not so hidden literacies prevail in the shaping of demand and supply?

One of the things I noticed is the scarcity of complex skins and shapes – is there not a demand for them? If the more complex skins (as in “old” skins ) are produced will the effort of producing them “pay off”?

I notice that scripted objects carry more Linden value than, for instance, simply made clothes.

Complexity is valued – but what sorts of activities shape the demand for specific kinds of complex products – why are some complex products available and not others?

When I talk of value I speak of both social value – what is valued in the everyday secondlife living – as well as value in terms of Linden dollar costs of objects and land etc. Both are linked of course.

And then there is the value that links Lindens to “real” U.S. dollars and the logic and process through which these exchange values generated daily …