A "mint" for something you don't actually think is valuable, or will ever be valuable, is really just a "tip". It's supporting the creator -- a dollar in the hat. But in crypto, "tips" come with "karma", because your tip may qualify you for something of value in the future. A tip in the hat doesn't do that.

I should clarify. Tipping IRL may come with karma as well. It's just not as easy to measure. Because it's not a quantifiable representation of karma. It's the real thing (if karma is real).

Onchain behavior is innately less “altruistic” because your actions can always be permissionlessly rewarded later

This increases the incentive to do good things!

https://warpcast.com/markfishman/0xf4b55119