[HN Gopher] Digital real estate and the digital housing crisis
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       Digital real estate and the digital housing crisis
        
       Author : jsnell
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-01-02 11:28 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | 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.
        
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