The culture around NFTs and other cryptowoo is genuinely vibrant and interesting. People have an enthusiasm and fearlessness about trying stuff that reminds the dinosaurs still among us of the early web days. This is especially true for young people just arriving on the scene.
Look at people who collect comics. It's also not high art, and the scarcity value is entirely artificial. But these people actually love comics! And the people who make comics also love comics! They have passion. Big difference. NFT people just have greed.
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This is actually kind of an insightful conclusion: pure greed appears to have no positive side-effects. It only engenders trash. To get positive side-effects (including good art or interesting social tribes) you need to mix the greed with something else. I don't know, passion.
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Well, I guess one way to reach an insightful conclusion is by responding to your own thoughts which reiterate what you already believe. A longer and more painful way is to try to understand what you may be missing and in which ways your experience is limited. I'll try the latter
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