“casino culture”

sports betting, shitcoins, meme stocks, vibe coding 100m in six hours, etc are all expressions of the same deep cultural rot. if youth don’t believe there’s legitimate ways to get rich through work, all of culture will become a rotten sports book for the soul

Will Manidis

this hit on a visceral level

https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1957784765844640032

building @privy, ex-farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud” 🤠

Hyperliquid

Nobody building around DAUs seem to want to work on real adoption efforts until the fee grift token casino culture eases.

Some are trying, but even KOL involved on platforms who bullpost for real world solutions and adoption seem to really only want to focus on high engagement slop and grifting fee from confusing people into back and forth selling for effortless WETH they’ll ignore taxes on.

Builders would rather mint a copy of a hot casino than participate in initiatives like “Accept USDC” and that’s a problem.