Valuy@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoI 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 foodwww.prospectmagazine.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1251
arrow-up1251external-linkI 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 foodwww.prospectmagazine.co.ukValuy@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squarezurohki@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 days agoThat 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.
minus-squarePabloSexcrowbar@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoSure it could have. They just needed to bolt a payment processor onto the whole mess and they’d have been printing money.
minus-squarezurohki@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agoThey’d be printing millions, but they need the promise of future trillions to try and maintain their status as a growth stock.
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.
Sure it could have. They just needed to bolt a payment processor onto the whole mess and they’d have been printing money.
They’d be printing millions, but they need the promise of future trillions to try and maintain their status as a growth stock.