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Re:Over $100M in Metaverse Land Sales Last Week by 1cvmask on Friday December 03, 2021 @05:42AM (#29428572)
Land or surface area to be more precise in the real world is finite.

This metaverse land just seems to be a “cool” dutch tulip greater fool ponzi scheme. This is the peak of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

Re:Over $100M in Metaverse Land Sales Last Week by fsloth on Friday December 03, 2021 @06:11AM (#29428722)
"This is the peak of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs."

As recognized by recent literature, Maslow's needs actually don't have a hierarchy - while each segment is important, and is helpful in analyzing human condition, there is no universal absolute ordering for them. Hungry people may perform art, for instance.

Re:Over $100M in Metaverse Land Sales Last Week by bellyfullofbac on Friday December 03, 2021 @06:11AM (#29428724)
It's so freaking incredible. Everybody is greedy, and a lot of people (a subset of the "everybody") are using their greed to scam them.

Yeah yeah blockchain, fiat is going to die, inflation, blah blah, you can find your justifications, but it's just greed, in my opinionated opinion.

I wonder how much of it is also influenced by the super-rich flaunting their stuff on social media, and reality TV. Apparently Bhutan was very happy before TV was legalized (in 1999), and TV changed things, they saw how the others lived and in short their society got infected with that hedonistic/capitalistic greed.

Re:Over $100M in Metaverse Land Sales Last Week by initialized on Friday December 03, 2021 @06:26AM (#29428825)
the dutch tulip bubble lasted one winter before collapsing, it also coincided with a growth in the supply of money during that period.

today dutch tulips are still a major tourist attraction, see the flower markets of Amsterdam busy each day. culture persists.

Re:Over $100M in Metaverse Land Sales Last Week by web2sucks on Friday December 03, 2021 @10:41AM (#29431228)
Is Minecraft also a tulip? You guys are so short sighted.
Re:Over $100M in Metaverse Land Sales Last Week by tinus_hn on Friday December 03, 2021 @01:11PM (#29433114)
Is this the old Second Life boom all over again?