Crack-Up Capitalism Chapter 11: A Cloud Country in the Metaverse
Remember Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel “Snow Crash”? People strap on goggles and escape their lousy gig jobs into a virtual world called the Metaverse. They buy property, build things, live second lives. One character puts it bluntly: “When you live in a shithole, there’s always the Metaverse.”