Billionaires are wasting money on crap like Metaverse, which is slowly bringing down the society. Would be great if they started investing in real world endeav

Billionaires are wasting money on crap like Metaverse, which is slowly bringing down the society. Would be great if they started investing in real world endeavors, such as fixing supply chain issues and improving manufacturing automation, so people in 3rd world countries will stop losing limbs while they're making us plastic crap we don't need. We have behemoths paying bored (and mostly redundant) engineers to work on ads and meta-verses. If they gave us engineers fun & real world problems to work on, our productivity would be significantly higher, and we would waste less time on things like HN. I bet a team of 5 engineers working on a passion project would be 100x more productive than 500 engineers working on Meta. But for now - we will continue collecting our paychecks to do dumb stuff while we're watching the world burn.