Tackling RMT: What creates buyers in the first place?

[drtasteyummy]

I think it's a mix of different aspects

a) Gil is way too cheap because SE lacks in engagement to really get rid of bots (most of them anyway)

b) People that buy Gil don't get punished

Now, realistically speaking if you did "a" and "b" properly there would almost be zero buyers BUT you face a different issue
and that is the decline of players. Some people will say that is justified because they're lazy, toxic or had it comming but
IMO there is a specific issue to Gil farming that is prevailing in almost if not all MMOs and that is: it's frigging boring and annoying

You have to learn a job you don't care about, to do something that is boring to most people and then join some youtube academy to analyze the market on 12 live tracking websites
or you have to grind hundreds of mobs again and again and again and again, like a bot. Most people come home from work and the last thing they wanna think about is "Finally home, time to do some boring 3 hours of farm which I frigging hate".

MMOs have an big issue where they always hide currency behind some boring grind, where the only people to pop out and defend it are the people that have every
farm job on max with 300 servants.

I argue if "a" and "b" would be enforced and there would be a farm method that is easy to access for everybody, enjoyable and profitable (static wise) almost nobody would ever buy Gil.