well i think "dreaming of getting rich quick" is a reductive view, memecoins tokens etc. are novel products in their own right

but yea the democratic internet stuff is cope and money is the main/only thing

"democratic internet" is the wrong framing but composable software legos enabled by permissionless access to open data and a series of protocol standards still hits for me

its a compelling vision but it feels like people aren't really building towards that anymore - and more structurally, the market incentivizes that

Yea I agree about market incentives. In many respects it feels like _the_ better way to write software. But due to increased user friction + cost + no "killer use case" yet, it hasn't reached the escape velocity that something that relies on network effects needs to win