The value of being a key participant in such a system is self-evident — nearly all of today’s leading internet companies are among the world’s 10 most valuable public companies. If the Metaverse does serve as a functional “successor” to the web — just this time with greater influence, time spent, and more commercial activity — there may be more economic advantages. Regardless, the Metaverse should generate the same diversity of opportunities that we’ve seen on the web — new companies, products, and services will emerge to manage everything from payment processing to identity verification, recruiting, ad placement, content creation, security, and more. This, in turn, will mean that many of today’s incumbents could be disrupted.
More broadly, the Metaverse will change how we allocate and poland mobile database monetize modern resources. Over the centuries, developed economies have changed as labor and real estate have waxed and waned in scarcity. Under the Metaverse, would-be workers who choose to live outside of cities will be able to participate in the “high-value” economy through virtual labor. We will also see further changes in where we live, the infrastructure we build, and who performs which tasks, as more consumer spending shifts to virtual goods, services, and experiences. Soon after the emergence of gaming economies, many “gamers”—often employed by a large company and often in low-income countries—would spend a workday collecting in-game digital resources to sell. These sales were typically to high-income gamers in the West. While this “work” is often menial, repetitive, and limited to a few applications, the variety and value of this “work” will grow as the Metaverse itself evolves.