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[–] CocaineShark@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you think about it, all sorts of fucked up things that are happening now have been portrayed as a bad thing in past media: Virtual words, virtual-fuckin' land (not 100% sure this one is real, still really hoping its not), misuse of AI, smart houses, where everything is controlled by a remote (which relies on electricity / wi-fi), even stuff like alexa, which is listening to every word you say, at your home...

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what's the point of selling "virtual land" if it's practically unlimited anyway? (artificial scarcity?)

[–] RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yes absolutely. Virtual land = Yet another NFT

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha yeah the virtual land was true thing. it was a crypto scam if I recall correctly. Everything nowadays is just crypto scam

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

You can just call it crypto. The scam bit is implied.