If SE is taking away my hard work...

[Alhanelem]

Economy in the real world is maintained, it is actually very carefully monitored in a sense that some areas of the market are strictly forbidden to undercut (not all, SOME), and its illegal for price fixing, it is then heavily regulated by many government services that the industry scales with the redenomination. When the event occurs, a place selling cars did not keep them at the same value, or reduce to 1/5th, by government control they were kind of "forced" to reduce to 1/10th in order to maintain balance.

In-Game, this is not the case, there is NO one to maintain balance but us, there is NO one to control undercutting, price fixing and scalability but us.

It is very different. You can read up about situation where this has caused financial crisis in countries.

It is not very different. SE does monitor its economy as does every company monitors the eoconomy of their own game.

Price fixing might not be "illegal" but that doesn't mean it's easy to get away with. It can only easily happen with extremely rare goods that only a few people cposess and thereby can control. More typical commodities cannot be controlled this way.

Price fixing won't be any more or less of an issue than it is today. Undercutting in fact will prevent any real issues with gouging. This stuff is all a non-issue. The key similarities between this economy and any economy are the very reasons why this is not a big deal and people are blowing itway out of porportion.

because so many things are going to change when 2.0 comes out, all kinds of things will change in the economy as well- it is pointless to even try to predict how people will behave.