Yes. they can
Such projects already exist. Meta also has the money to create such a project

At first it will be just a copy of existing projects with some features
How Meta could muck up the metaverse
How to Develop a Metaverse
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The Committee of 300 is a secret society consisting of representatives of the inviolable ruling class, which includes the Queen of England, the royal families of Europe, famous politicians – Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, George Lloyd, George Bush, as well as the richest families in the world, such as the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, Fords, etc. (more than 300 families in total).
The global predictor controls the world economy through loans and bond loans (IMF), creates economic crises (for example, the Great Depression), unleashes wars (including world wars), plants various subcultures (hippies, beatniks, etc.) and manages international drug trafficking (the UK's fortune is made on the opium trade).

It reminds me of those creepy and deliberately chilling monster movies where a monster with distorted facial features, long hair and even longer teeth growls and spits in all directions. These films only distract attention, real monsters wear business suits and come to work on Capitol Hill in limousines.
Committee of 300 - Secret World Government
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The future business of delivering goods to other planets
In the near future, the exploration of near space - the moon, Mars - will take place. The planets will be delivered cargo from Earth on rockets. The cheapest delivery is now through Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Since no country other than the United States has been mass-producing missiles, competitors will not appear soon.
Flew into history: how was Elon Musk's SpaceX able to overtake Roskosmos so much and so quickly?
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Because they can't control so many people.
Now the human population exceeds 8 billion. Such a number of people does not improve the quality of life of the elite, they are difficult to manage and they require resources. The tasks of the management of the world's population force the expansion of the group of elitists and managers themselves, which leads to an increase in contradictions, a struggle of ambitions and a drop in the quality of management in the very backstage and its closest servants. Therefore, the tasks of population reduction are the cornerstones for them.

The problem is solved through a set of measures - such as bloody local conflicts, family destruction, vaccinations and medicines leading to infertility, harmful food additives and preservatives, epidemics, deterioration of the quality of life, hunger, propaganda of homosexuality and sex that does not lead to procreation, genetically modified food, romanticization of suicide, narcotization, creation of an appropriate psychological climate (in captivity do not reproduce), design of the organization densely populated urban enclaves and the creation of an aggressive environment in them; poverty, fueling of ethno-cultural contradictions, driving people from the earth
Agenda 21 - a plan for building a planetary dystopia
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