Siren.Barber said:
Defending the moral issue is really secondary.
well, no, it's not.
i argued that it's not morally wrong, i never claimed that it wasn't against the rules of the game
it is. no debate there.
stop trying to change the argument into something you can win.
if new sources of crafting income had supplanted the old, there would still be a net gain, sorry.
to extend that to your analogy, if the loss in the newspaper business was supplanted by new sectors that were so successful that they more than made up for the losses there, there would be a net economic gain. in both xi and real life, this is not the case.
game is borked for crafters and we are helping to fix it.