Companies and entrepreneurs are fiercely competing to invest and take part in the metaverse.

 Millions of people globally are anticipated to spend much of their time in the metaverse, regardless of social status, intelligence, or their earning potential. 

The feeling of being left out of the enormous financial gains made by a small few, while others waste their time trying to get noticed and paid is not well defined but we do know how a sense of unfairness mixed with a nonstop parade of "somebodies' effects one's sense of self.  

Is the metaverse is a ticking time bomb and how might we diffuse it before it is too late?