Web3 is just an excuse to still shilling crypto while using it as a payment system has not taken off. They need to hype the next empty buzzwords to keep parade going.
Jobs which don' create positive value to the world are not bullshit. Our western economy is mostly based on the meaningless consumption of stupid things. These products have to be marketed and pushed into clients by manufactered believe that they need to buy it.
Other part of this are the zero-sum games. Trick people into buying it by introducting artifcial scarcity.
Value of NFTs is purely fictional and based on some buzzwords with a spice of ponzi scheme on top of it. People who are into NFTs don't care about the functionality and usefulness at all. They are pulled to NFTs and shitcoins by a old get rich quick marketing tactics.
The worrying thing is that mainstream social medias are stopping reading as a form of the content consumption. Videos are becoming shorter and more condensed. It will end badly for brains of the generation raised on tiktok.
Sounds like a normal day in the science journalism. The same case was with the ""earth-like planets"" headlines even though some were unconfirmed and the only data known about them was their orbit, mass to a certain degree and star, which in most cases was small and very active. In the media outlets there weren't any information about the host star and the fact that most of those planets were tidally locked. Besides all of that, they were still calling them earth-like planets.
People generally underestimate how hard is to settle mars comparing to moon. Getting there is the easiest part. Entirely sustainable colony on its own have never been achiewed before. Projects like biosphere2 failed miserably. On current nasa budget even 2030's are even out of reach for a self sustaining colony. Hundreds of bilions are needed. It eon't happen without big push.
So the biggest obstacle to solving anything about this world is stupidity of the general population. People can't stop choosing the most stupid things with their wallets and attention.
Marketers are people without morals, probably most of them can be classified as a high functioning sociopaths. Developers are realistic and mostly care about product being as good as possible. In the terms of marketing product isn't that important but rather finding the biggest market which implies telling fantastical stories to naive people. These modes of thinking are entirely opposite of each other.
The most impressive thing is the scale of the city and amount of traffic. In other games you feel that buildings are way too small and every object is placed by hand for convenience to a player. This tech demo nailed the feeling of a livable metropolis.
This game was marketed not as a coherent game but as a mix of the best tropes from rpg's and open world genre. That's why they only showed one faked vertical slice and development for that have been scrapped and restarted from scratch. Scope creep and false too good to be true marketing destroyed this game.
In general, society has problems with monetization of valuable things. It's not only the case with FOSS, it's also holds true with science and a long term not quarterly counted products development. Sadly vile entertainment and advertising is perfectly monetized.
The value comes from targeted marketing at the get rich quick sensitive individuals. Most of the regular folks now know about bitcoin as the form of making money from the sky. Add to that cynical views of a financial market and you will get that 2t$.
There are many factors in the play here. Regular people can't afford good upbringing for a kid and even if money isn't a problem dystopian vision of the future clearly prevent from making that choice.