The metaverse economy. Comments on the article “The future that awaits us”, published in The Economist.

Abstract

When Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse ideas are connected to Klaus Schwab's fourth industrial revolution, Paul Mason's post-capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff's surveillance capitalism, Jeffrey Sachs' sustainable development and confronted with the imagination of writers like George Orwell with 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, then one understands what The Economist's article “The Future Awaits Us” is talking about as clearly as Thomas Piketty argues that one should take seriously the relationship between capital and ideology, which allows us to understand why the capitalists of the world get rich under the protection of a socialist country like China, and that deep down there was never a contradiction between capitalism and socialism, since they were ideologies to build a world communist state in the framework of the Marxist ideal, with the false clothing of sustainable development.