Sure, I'll bite. You're deliberately constructing the least empathetic victim to allow yourself to pretend this is victimless. The people you'd be scamming wou

Sure, I'll bite. You're deliberately constructing the least empathetic victim to allow yourself to pretend this is victimless. The people you'd be scamming would be people like you. People with hopes and dreams. People confused about what the future holds and who have a lot of anxiety about it. The bit about balancing out wealth inequality is totally ludicrous. You can't beat the casino from inside the house. And if you're embarking on your life of amoral grift, why would you care about social justice? It seems like you're trying to have it both ways, morality doesn't matter, just grift, and the grift is good actually. It looks to me like you're rationalizing something you know is dumb, and that's why you're asking us to talk you out of it. I don't know why you're doing that, but maybe that is a better question to ask yourself? I've had similar moments in life where I didn't know how to proceed, and I was just so desperate to do _something_, change _something_, that I tried to talk myself into taking a path I knew was the wrong choice. As a practical matter, you're probably too late to be a robber baron in the NFT craze. You're having this epiphany because you're starting to hear the music, but by the time you've heard it, it's already slowing down. You may as well say, Ask HN, why shouldn't I give Bernie Madoff money and collect that sweet 10%/year? People will continue to mint money from NFTs, maybe for months, maybe for years, but they'll be people like Beeple and a16z, people who got in early and have sufficient inertia to keep moving, even as the sails go slack. It may be instructive that the people who got in with Madoff early - had to give the money back. When you play dumb games the result is almost always that you win dumb prizes. Hey, I hope things work out for you. You don't have to make a big decision tonight. You don't have to make a decision this week. Chew on it. Seek alternatives. I think it's great you made this post. Keep looking for evidence that you're wrong. Confirmation bias is subtle and we all struggle with it.