brypto

The majority of people in the world (I’d guess 95%+) are indifferent to or dislike speculation

If you make products that are explicitly around financial speculation, you cede a massive TAM

But it’s unclear how to win real users. So the industry accepts the local maxima — higher floor, lower ceiling

think its increasingly difficult for people to build or even really see "outside of" the logic & reality of financialization, its a pretty universal and dominant trend. 

long since integrated deeply with our culture, how we see ourselves. 

this 2025 restaurant in/out list reminded me of much the same

yes, without a single doubt. less and less under the surface, too

I think there’s a lot of resentment under the surface. Eg. The hostile sentiment from “normal people” towards crypto betrays a sense of anger about how excessively financialized things have become (and in stark contrast to a lot of people’s daily suffering)

Humans of course have co-evolved with markets, so you can’t take it out of us. But jury is still out where the line is between “markets good” and “gamble on everything”