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So let's back up a few layers and talk about the metaverse a bit.

I guess my question is, what do you think is the primary emotional motivation of people who think that the world wants to live, at least in part, in a metaverse?

So I think it really varies.

I think some people use it as kind of a get rich quick scheme or, you know, just, oh, I have to get in this gold rush.

So that's not really something that compelling to me.

But I do think that when people talk about there's the phrase Web 3.

So it's sort of Web 2.0 is like you have a Facebook profile and you have your Gmail and all those things.

If you look at it, that's just you're filling out a form that some company designed, whereas all these projects are very much web.

Starting from the ground up, you get to decide which things are important to me.

So I think there's a creativity that I heard about and a desire to experiment that I heard about from a lot of the people in this space.

Or even dinner now, you know, it's a fun way to meet people.

There's a low barrier to entry.

And for the people who are a part of it, it's a really valuable community.

So I think kind of experimentation and community are two of the driving forces from people who are active in this space.

So is there one thing in all of this you're really excited about where if this metaverse thing really does work out, is there something you think is really helpful to humanity in all of this?

So I spoke to Andrea Hernandez, who's a food and beverage forecaster under the SnackShot, and she's based in Honduras.

And she was talking about how it would be really cool if NFTs, because it's harder to get traditional bank loans there, or crypto could help, let's say, farmers or agriculture workers have an ownership share of the work they're doing, or similar with restaurant workers, that you have some type of equity.

And I think that's- A very ambitious project, and it's not going to be as lucrative, which is why fewer people are working on it.

But I think just from like a worker empowerment perspective, you know, unions are obviously having a big moment.

I think that's a big area of interest for the food world is, you know, labor, obviously.

So if there's a way to improve working conditions via giving people some control or ownership via this technology, like, I mean, there's a lot of kinks to work out and a lot of logistics and skepticism and risk, but...

I think that that would be something that I would potentially be very excited about because it would just address something really urgent.

Yeah, that's interesting because stock ownership is complicated.

This would be an easy way to bring people into ownership.

Abigail, thank you so much.