Move over, space. Tech billionaires have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’ | Jessa Crispin

Imagine a massive, invisible world that surrounds you but which you cannot see or engage unless you own the correct - expensive - technology

Look at all of our tech billionaires trying to leave the world to evade responsibility for their malevolent influence on it. Anything to avoid being confronted by the workers they exploit or the victims of the ethnic and religious clashes facilitated by their platforms. Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are flinging themselves into space; Elon Musk is burrowing into the earth; now Mark Zuckerberg is retreating into a virtual metaverse".

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