Surplus Population Will Voluntarily Enter Metaverse

Back in the mid-2000s I thought Chinese kids paying money to put clothes on their avatars was absurd. Look at where things are going. People willingly exist almost solely online, their status is online. They need ways of showing status online.

When it comes to something like Bitcoin, many like to laugh at the older people who think the whole entire project, not simply altcoins or the speculative bubble, is a scam, that this will all fade away like pet rocks or be replaced by central bank digital currencies. Perhaps the bigger mistake is in thinking that something like Bitcoin will exist in the real world. It's entirely possible we have two parallel societies that exist side-by-side. Many people will opt to live in the matrix. Don't think of it as a prediction, but as a thought experiment if you can't fathom why people would pay $1 for digital land, let alone millions.

BI: Metaverse property sales are accelerating as investors stake out virtual land in the potentially $1 trillion market. Here are 3 recent examples that have sold for eye-popping amounts