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    YOUNG RUFFIANS

    Feb 09, 2022 5 minutes
    WORDS ROWAN HORNCASTLE
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    MARK RICCIONI

    The metaverse. It’s a term that’s currently perched precariously on the tip of the tongue of anyone in tech. And it’s the future, apparently. One where we’ll live in the internet going about our daily lives – doing day to day things – in augmented reality, rather than reality reality. Sounds like a scary Black Mirror episode, right? One that’ll never happen. But, believe it or not, it’s already here.

    Last year, people in the Philippines were ditching their day jobs in the real world to take up jobs on (an online, blockchain-based game where players can earn tokens and cash out in local currency), as they could make more money trading digital pets or becoming dragon blacksmiths/unicorn barbers than a traditional job in

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