I’ll live and die a boomer about this shit. If this shit catches on before i’m thrust into the labor market from college, I’m gunning straight for a socially essential IRL job like waste management that will take one hell of a grift to move into the metaverse. Fuck web3, fuck digital “assets”, fuck intellectual property, fuck facebook, fuck the entire concept. I have principles surrounding tech and privacy, and unlike my views on the path to communism, I am extremely inflexible on them.
Only metaverse I’ll ever step foot in given the chance is the cool one :reeducation:
Don’t worry Why! While everyone is in the metaverse, we’ll run around the real world stealing all their shit.
Once Metaverse fails, we will conduct all of our business meetings in VRChat, where everyone gets to have huge anime titties
Edit: tangentially related (nsfw?) Why Metaverse will fail.
I am optimistic. I am of the age that vr still seems like wondefful magic to me. I did a minigolf thing in one and It was what I could only have dreamed of as a child. If that tech means I can just telecommute for bullshit office stuff as well that seems like a win to me.
For it to catch on VR helmets need to become lightweight and cheap. VR helmets now are like cell phones in the 80’s. I could see you making them lightweight and leasing them from Verizon though
These things make the web look like the singularity. Second life was so slow and monotonous compared to cutting to the chase with search engines, hypertext and images.
I’m gunning straight for a socially essential IRL job like waste management that will take one hell of a grift to move into the metaverse
I would advise you to read Bullshit Jobs. Generally, the more socially essential a job is, the less it pays, the worse the conditions, and the more you will be treated like a leech.
