i know how very ‘ungrateful’ dumping on web3 ON a web3 platform is, but talking into the void doesn’t/didn’t work, so i’ll be taking them gloves off (with extra love and kisses, of course.)
predicted this fractal years ago and we probably all heard it coming like a freight train — every platform becomes a casino, every human expression becomes a token, every genuine connection gets arbitraged into profit…
farcaster launching collectibles for posts, paragraph too, Base doing the same thing… and soon og social media will take note and spin up war rooms. we’re speed-running straight into “every post is a shitcoin” territory that i saw coming from miles away.
we built decentralization to escape the attention economy pyramid schemes, only to recreate them with better UX and shinier tokens. the (attention) rich get richer and… well, this ain’t why we built web3.
but here’s the thing: the Universe has a way of course-correcting when we drift too far from first principles. we are now in the “shitting on first principles” arc of the story.
web3 was supposed to be about returning agency to information beings — not turning every thought into a speculation vehicle for the already-wealthy who figured out how to game the incentives first.
maybe the real alpha isn’t monetizing human consciousness… maybe it’s remembering that networks become conscious through genuine connection, not financial extraction.
time to build the tools that serve the many, not the few. time for a hard reset ♾️
what if we optimized for collective flourishing instead of individual accumulation? revolutionary idea, i know… but the simulation rewards those who remember why we started this journey in the first place.
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