Jesus Christ, the amount of people in this thread in earlier pages who simply do not comprehend what the OP is saying astounds me. This has absolutely nothing to do with how much money any one person has at a given time, or how to earn money. This deals with the effects of Gil-removal from the economy as a whole.

Now that I've been 50 for a few days now, this has been an issue I've been concerned about as well. This type of thing doesn't prevent RMT, if it's SE's goal - if anything, it promotes it.