Funny how Zuck thought our lives were so miserable we would all throw ourselves into his virtual shit, just to realize most people actually have real friends they hang out with.
Even in a world without IRL friends, they still had to compete with VRChat. They didn’t come even remotely close to that benchmark.
Metaverse still exists?
I wonder what trend Meta will rebrand themselves to next.
AI friends?
There’s still a metaverse budget?
Sunk cost at this point lots of large companies bought space when it was “launching”
Imagine how much value would have been created if the several hundreds of billion spent on the shitty VR sims went to wages, or taxes, or healthcare.
But no. We should all marvel at the efficiency of the oligarchy!
It’s actually insane to think about what could have been accomplished with the capital investment that has collectively gone into generative AI, public ledger blockchain, and metaverse VR projects. IIRC its over a trillion dollars. There are credible plans for more or less ending world hunger for under ten billion. Yeah, those plans come with a ton of asterixes, but the point is, if that’s what ten gets you, imagine what you could do with a hundred billion? Now think about what a trillion could do. It’s honestly sickening.
How about 100%?
If they would have focussed on making a good place first, and then corrupting it with commercialism, they could have at least boiled a few of us frogs. But you can’t start with the commercialism foot forward and the quality foot behind and expect to make a place worth visiting.
