Vitaliy wrote:

> I've had this conversation with another person yesterday. Somehow, 
> manufacturing is "real", and search engines, software, etc are "not real".
> 
> There's no such thing as "virtual economy", there's just "economy".

I think I disagree. There are different types and various degrees of
outside dependency in various forms of investment and assets. I think this
is obvious...

If there is a severe crash in the financial and stock market, some assets
may lose their value quickly and unrecoverably, while others go largely
unaffected. Same for other events, like inflation. While there is only one
economy in that it is all connected, there definitely are different types
of assets (which is what the comment seems to be about, rather than
economy).

Gerhard

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