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A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century - the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism - being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk) , leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society.. At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil war, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme - the metaverse, cryptocurrency, space travel, and transhumanism - is an existential threat in moral, political, and economic terms.. In The End of Reality¸ Jonathan Taplin provides perceptive insight into the personal backgrounds and cultural power of these billionaires - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreesen ("The Four") - and shows how their tech monopolies have brought middle-class wage stagnation, the hollowing out of many American towns, a radical increase in income inequality, and unbounded public acrimony.