Life is shifting more and more into virtual space. What seemed like science fiction a few years ago has long since become everyday life. And it now has a name: The worlds made of pure information are collectively called the „metaverse“. The denser and more entangled they become, the more economic activity will shift there. We are already paying a lot of money for increasingly immaterial goods. In the future, an ever greater part of value creation will probably take place detached from ordinary reality.