The Atlas program -- about which very little has been said publicly by Linden Lab -- is a program whereby Linden Lab gives discounts to large land barons. Discounts on bulk purchases is a completely normal and beneficial business practice, but it's better when it runs as a "rate card," as Jack described it, using a British expression that means "price list". If you knew that X number of sims got you Y discount, you might aspire to work up to that amount, enticed by the discount.
Jack himself spoke of the "aspirational" value of this program, but yet it will be keeping its light under a bushel. It's odd, the notion of just "hearing about" the fact that there is "some sort of discount out there" if you "have a good business model" -- and that being something spurring you not to malice and resentment, but the desire to grow bigger and better.
There's also an unstated claim here that large estates are "better" or "more creative". Maybe they're just faster at putting 16 white pancakes on a sim.
I asked a few times and got the number for Linden Homes: over 30,000. That means the number has tripled since its inception, only a few months ago. I should have asked how many premiums there are, but that figure was down, and we don't know if it is raising (and they aren't telling).
These meetings are always so bleak. Jack is always so cheery and evasive. People are always so desperate and bitter. I don't know how Jack personally deals with the toxicity of these encounters, but more to the point, how to residents deal with the evasiveness and weaving and bobbing that Jack has to do? They evidently don't deal by leaving SL or tiering down in the large masses you would think from the forums howling.
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