[HN Gopher] Digital real estate and the digital housing crisis ___________________________________________________________________ Digital real estate and the digital housing crisis Author : jsnell Score : 17 points Date : 2022-01-02 11:28 UTC (11 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.gamedeveloper.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.gamedeveloper.com) | NikolaeVarius wrote: | Its fun seeing Snow Crash become reality. People getting rich | selling property inside the Metaverse that technically has no | restrictions. | | Just do an Eve Online and let people fight each other for it. Its | a game, who cares | vanusa wrote: | How anyone can call this a "crisis" is beyond me. | jl2718 wrote: | What's the difference? Nobody has a life or death need to be in | Manhattan or San Francisco either. | verdverm wrote: | Housing IRL protects you from the elements is one. It also | serves as a place to store and cook sustenance. | | Moving IRL takes money, time, and effort. There are more | physical connections and restrictions, or at least hurdles to | moving IRL. | vanusa wrote: | Housing has always been a "life or death" need for everyone, | everywhere. | | Like the people who were already living in those places, long | before _you-know-who_ tried to move there. | webkike wrote: | If you don't have a car and/or money you don't have an option | to go any place else | imtringued wrote: | People like problems more than they like solutions. | JohnJamesRambo wrote: | Time is a flat circle and humans will always recreate the same | problems until they change fundamentally. | | This is why I don't look to Mars as some Utopia. You will have | the same shit there but infinitely more expensive. | PickledHotdog wrote: | - _Michael Scott_ | 323 wrote: | There is plenty of space in USA too. Except that no one wants to | be in the middle of nowhere. | | So it's not surprising at all that some digital locations will be | much more desirable than others. | | In the metaverse people will want to live next to celebrities | too. | wmf wrote: | The metaverse can have teleportation or something. | TigeriusKirk wrote: | Meta will give out a couple billion free plots in their metaverse | and this problem will evaporate. | Marciplan wrote: | I get that headlines like this generate clicks, but, come on, | what complete nonsense | daenz wrote: | >What makes this all so strange is that digital land doesn't have | to be like physical land, in fact you kinda have to go out of | your way to do that on purpose. | | The fact that the author finds this "strange" tells me that they | don't understand that the artificial restrictions are designed to | make money. They go on to propose "solutions" for a "problem" | that is not a problem to those who are making money. In fact, | their "solutions" ARE a "problem" to them making money, because | it lowers the artificial value of the digital real estate. If the | people making boatloads of money were unhappy with the current | situation, it would change. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-02 23:01 UTC)