I'm with you. Every time I see articles like this, it gives me the impression that Ethereum is just a giant distributed poker game where players are just trying

I'm with you. Every time I see articles like this, it gives me the impression that Ethereum is just a giant distributed poker game where players are just trying to get as many chips from their opponent as they can without producing any meaningful value to the world outside of the table. Maybe it has value as a honeypot to keep these amoral win-maximizers out of industries where they could do greater harm by targeting opponents that are not like themselves.