This is pretty clearly what the tech oligarchs have in mind, yes? Grimes was famously mocked when she talked about it in an interview, during the time she was dating Elon Musk; and it's all over the Metaverse discourse. They want us to be workers in their virtual world, playing games and building imaginary things in exchange for Blockchain currency that we can use to make our own little Meta-lives nicer; while in the real world, we're all living at the lowest necessary standard that will keep us alive. It's a sort of pre-Matrix, and as of right now it's The Plan.