Sneaker culture is a lot of dudes getting dressed pretending that they’re impressing girls, when they’re actually trying to impress other dudes.

Web3 builder culture is a lot of devs building pretending that they’re impressing the consumer, when they’re actually trying to impress other devs.

The rational actor (consumer) is an imaginary friend that capitalists invented to camouflage greed as humanistic “demand.”

I disagree with Ayn Rand, but at least she was honest in saying:

1) Inspired selfishness is divine
2) We owe civilization to autoerotic megalomania
3) Contrarians inherit the Earth

She was wrong, but I respect her for declaring her wrong take plainly rather than the mealy-mouthed silliness that is contemporary business and economic theory.

Chocolate rainmaker. Singer. Thinker. Voice

Capitalism's idea of the rational actor is a facade for greed, not true humanistic demand