Perhaps the future will prove the daring Mark Zuckerberg right.

Perhaps he will win this bet on the metaverse, which has positioned him almost in opposition to Wall Street. Perhaps even today’s detractors apologize profusely to him and kiss his feet.

“Zuck the XIV,” an apparent reference to the French king notorious for his arrogance and excess, Louis XIV, as Elon Musk dubbed him, lived up to his name when he announced on October 26 that Facebook, now called Meta Platforms. (GOAL) would continue to invest heavily in the metaverse.