Why don't I get paid for the puppies I send to forever homes?
Nobody is stopping you from selling your dogs to other users on the site. If a dog is a good breed example, you can sell it to another user looking for a show dog. That being said, we aren't going to add an uncontrolled/unlimited source of money into this sim.
It's an economics issue that can tear apart simulations like this. For an example, visit the SimulatedSports horse sim or www.simsteer.com cattle sim. Inflation gets out of control very easily and there isn't much that can be done about it that wouldn’t completely infuriate the users. Here’s what will happen if we allow people to send puppies to forever homes for money…
- User A decides he needs more money.
- User A doesn’t have dogs that anybody on the site wants
- User A decides to send puppies to forever home for money
- User A realizes he can do this over and over and over and make more and more and more money
- User A becomes Puppy Mill A
- User B sees what User A did and does the same thing
- User C sees what User A and User B did and does the same thing….
- ShowDog.Com becomes PuppyMillSim.Com
As mentioned earlier, if you require that users have quality dogs to send to the forever homes, User A would get to step two in the above scenario and realize there are other users on the site who are willing to buy his/her dogs.
The reason puppy mills exist is they are able to generate revenue. The only thing stopping them from taking over is ethics and you just can’t expect every person who comes along to ShowDog to be ethical enough to not create a puppy mill. We have added a source of revenue in the form of daily salaries to maintain the balances of our active users. Every dollar that is taken out of the sim is put back in.
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