This is, after all, nothing more than to say that, as in other aspects of life right now, philosophy must also be revolutionary, to some extent at least.
How could it not be when a complete rethink on what is the nature of work, and by extension, what should we value to work for, is also required. But then, what else would you expect when electrified experience retrieval, the thing that makes VR possible in the first place, has rendered Capitalism absolutely obsolete; both because human skill is no longer a viable, competitive commodity, but also because this new electrified environment requires a completely new kind of involvement to be adequately responsive to -- assuming your goal is continued survival; the very kind of involvement in depth that VR would tempt to suggest in fantasy, but for which we actually need in everyday, working life. Something the factory mindset of Capitalism was never even dreamed of to be able to provide.
I can only hope that the Philosophical Community, as well as the social, and hard, sciences, will come to this revolutionary view. and soon. As I have said countless times before, time is not on our side.
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[Post Note: And let us also not forget that, within the commoditization of everything, lies the terrible creep of how money can corrupt every process; even one dedicated to finding scientific truth. J.V.]
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