There is less value produced than there are claims on it and commitments to it. The virtual economy has clear negative effects. Enterprises don't restructure, because they can survive as value-subtractors in the virtual economy. Because output in the virtual economy is hugely overpriced, a large part of Russia's GDP is exaggerated. The public sector.
Budgets have little meaning when enterprises pay taxes in kind.
Governments have to find ways to use the products and services that the enterprises happen to deliver rather than those society says it needs most. Nevertheless, the virtual economy is not exclusively negative. It is the social safety net. The virtual economy is robust, well-organized, and broadly popular. To break it would be very costly, socially and therefore politically.