Capitalist Virtual Environments

Had fun during the last meeting discussing the collaborative merits of Second Life. Being members of the same group was not enough to make the collabotative building and scripting of objects easy. In fact, it was decided that it was easier to put a price on an object than to allow its modification by other group members. (this is perhaps a slight exaggeration, but objects made copyable and modifyable were not scriptable, and their contents not viewable by other group members.) We thought that, since the sale of objects is such a large part of second life (probably second only to the role-playing element, which is not of much interest to me) This made Second Life more of a Capitalist Virtual Environment that a Collaborative one.
It was suggested (in jest) that perhaps collaboration would be better served by a Communist Virtual Environment (Groucho Marx and John Lennon- that'll be the day) where everything is shared by everyone, and therefore copyable, modifyable, scriptable and (here comes that most obvious of downsides) deletable, griefable, thiefable.
What a debate- I'd love to be involved in a serious attempt, but the FBI have already warned me off  ;-p

On a more serious note, I'll do a real post later.

A working class hero is something to be, apparently.