If people are out there buying runs, elite gear becomes more common plus nobody knows that your gear was earned by your great skill. How will others know to bow to you?! This is indeed a great problem facing many players. Fortunately, all they must do is attack the morality of using the buying runs method. If the arguments fail against the method itself, you can always assume that there is something immoral about acquiring the gil to use the method.

Nobody is accusing Bluebird/Tonberry/Mindflayer minion owners of gil buying. How very interesting...