Not OP but no. If someone buys in to a multi-level marketing scheme and starts peddling weight loss pills on Facebook, they certainly have spent real money on t

Not OP but no. If someone buys in to a multi-level marketing scheme and starts peddling weight loss pills on Facebook, they certainly have spent real money on that and yet it is not a worthy cause because their only expectation is profit. NFTs have the possibility that the buyer is just genuinely a collector with no concern whatsoever for the value of the asset, but art collection is largely a financial venture. Not to mention that this simple art purchase contributed to higher gas fees for everyone else - why should we have to suffer just because you purchased something? - I don’t consider that a worthy “cause” at all. In this space, you can donate to the EFF, sponsor open source projects, use services with subscription models over advertising models, donate to charities expanding internet and computing access globally, etc. which are all more “cause worthy” than buying digital art alone.