Memento Mori, NFTs and Escaping Capitalism

What does the philosophy of tomorrow look like in the metaverse?

Only we, being stupid and irrepressibly greedy humans, could come up with a concept as useless and problematic as monetising a resource-free product. And before you all jump on the hypocritical irony of me expecting payment for my own creative labour, let me remind you all that art does not exist to become an asset or capital. We create because it’s fun. It’s beautiful. It’s meaningful. You’re a bad artist if you create solely to make a profit. Anyway. That’s another debate. Let’s get meta.

The Metaverse: A Trap, But Not As We Know It

At the turn of the last century, economists got very excited. Labour, something that took up hundreds of hours of backbreaking, spine crushing and phossy jaw-inducing time, was suddenly becoming something a machine could easily do. With electricity, steam, coal, and kinetic energy, humans could sit back and watch miles of fabric…