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

defi is the one area where people do actually use composable legos because protocols have liquidity moats

if there's no liquidity moat though the incentive for a business is to fork/"roll their own" instead of plugging in an existing lego

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