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I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a horribly designed car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no food (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That couldn't possibly have become a trillion dollar business, though. That was the fantasy they were selling to investors, a future where people would be living their whole lives in Meta's virtual corporate dystopia.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure it could have. They just needed to bolt a payment processor onto the whole mess and they'd have been printing money.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

They'd be printing millions, but they need the promise of future trillions to try and maintain their status as a growth stock.