Tech oligarchs are encouraging the creation of virtual worlds as a cheap way to avoid problems in the real one.

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It is not possible, on Earth, to give everyone all that they would want. Not everyone can have Richard Branson’s private island,” Doom co-creator and former CTO of Oculus John Carmack told Joe Rogan during a 2020 interview.

Yes, but we want no one to have private islands

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What the fuck would an average mfer even do with their own island? Nice take, Carmack.

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Sad to see Carmack have these brainworms. Back in his younger days, he threatened to quit if his boss made him patent a rendering technology he’d developed.

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