I'm finding the "positive sum" language around coins really misleading.

It's literally the opposite. If the way users make money from their content is when other users buy it, it's literally zero sum, financially. Not everyone can be making money, unless external capital is being injected from a another source (which is losing money).

I think this misses the bigger picture. 

if you treat coins purely as a closed system with buyers and sellers, it looks zero sum. but that ignores the fact that attention and discovery are not fixed resources.

the “positive sum” comes not from everyone making magic internet money, but from the system enabling value to emerge where there was none before.

leads to better discovery, better content, and more people opting in, that is net positive. also remember that money is infinite, and if not injected here, its injected elsewhere.

see all that SOUNDS cool but no one is dying to use zora or tba. this can prolly be applied to some other app in the future. 

also everytime something pops off "sofi" wise, dan just steals it and adds it to farcaster which i appreciate.