"The promise of VR is to make the world you wanted. It is not possible, on Earth, to give everyone all that they would want. Not everyone can have Richard Branson’s private island,” Doom co-creator and former CTO of Oculus John Carmack told Joe Rogan during a 2020 interview.
Fuck this take, and the "let them e̶a̶t̶ ̶c̶a̶k̶e̶ play VR" insult
"Please, we just want housing and healthcare we could easily afford if you billionaires didn't horde."
"Look, we can't give everyone a private island, so we should just keep everything for ourselves."
https://www.wired.com/story/billionaires-use-vr-avoid-social-change/
re: wealth disparity, tech bros
@RadicalEdward A VR system won't assuage the real life pain of being homeless.