Bondage to the Real Economy
The future isn’t about escaping reality.
It’s about who gets to feel it.
Out here, meanwhile, the real world just keeps getting dirtier.
War, crime, lockdowns and mass migration.
You’re not living in “reality”—you’re living in scarcity.
The physical world is quietly becoming the underclass zone: no polish, no exit, just grind.
Those condemned to it will also be branded the most “real.”
Real estate, real assets, real economy.
The simpleton clings to what they can touch and feel
because they have no access to what they can’t see or the minds eye.
It’s just economics doing what it’s always done:
converting scarcity into status.
The question isn’t “will the metaverse take over?”
Who gets to feel real — and who gets stuck being it?