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Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about. The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.

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@npub1qu56...qel2 I agree with @npub1hyku...3p33 's theory that growth stocks will do anything to remain valued as growth stocks. So in metaverse's case, the thing actually succeeding was a secondary objective compared to spinning a narrative of continued potential infinite future growth. That's why the story is so easily and readily replaced by a new one about AI or crypto or whatever the current fad might be.