Comment by anigbrowl

In spite of being presented as the future of work by some venture capitalists, the incentives just don’t make sense. Floors don’t have to be swept in the metaverse unless they’re designed to need sweeping.

They make perfect sense. You probably can't be a King or Queen in the real world, but for a modest outlay you can play one in the virtual world. The product being sold is not the fun of clicking around doing pointless things in a Monarchy Simulator, but the emotional satisfaction of bossing a small army of other people around. Within the game, you can be the sun around whom others revolve.