The recent reality TV trend has spawned a new breed of game show in which contestants are sent to desert islands and poked with scorpions or locked up together and left to drive each other slowly insane.

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Once this group finds its footing, and awareness dawns on the rest of the economy that it really is a case of game over, this is where we can expect a new breed of political and economic leaders to emerge and reboot the economic system.

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Social-media start-ups rubbed shoulders with better-known names such as Moshi Monsters, a game-playing website aimed at children, and with the new breed of finance websites that connect the cash-strapped with the flush.

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