Capitalism is supposed to be hard. 🤷♀️ You're supposed to have to hustle and bust your ass and take strategic risks.
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having said that, taking VC money to build goal-adjacent things is a strategy i'm employing
gonna be nice when i get to launching something, it's a really good time for it i think, stack sats, ride the elevator, finish the last, hardest 10%, roll it out, spend the money on getting the marketing out and gathering a small team to maintain and support the product
soon :trademark:
I was more critical about the various income sources before, but I now see the benefit of tying as many different income sources into the protocol, as possible. Users follow the income streams.
The protocol wants to be the new Internet, so it needs to be for everyone. It needs to be an agnostic protocol, to be a universal protocol.
I also just no longer care if someone builds something I wouldn't build. I don't even know who is building what, anymore, and I'm not their mama.
I'm cheering everyone who brings in new customers who aren't just here to follow Jack, Odell, and Lyn.
yeah, and the chorus of "
sing songs to the Lord not men (and women) lol
"i am an NPC and here's proof: i support the current thing from
what do you call this choir? influenceees? gullible? credulous?
Yeah, turns the entire protocol into NPCs and Yes-Men.
there is something about idolatry that is baked into the human brain i think
few don't have it naturally, and if we aren't in charge everything goes to hell little by little
the Bible is replete with examples of this over and over and over and over and over and over and over
well, this is the mess we are embedded in, gotta make our own way because we don't follow others