So I'm skeptical of web3, I dig cryptocurrency but all this nonsense about NFTs and metaverse and whatever is just that, nonsense. But there is one glaring mis

So I'm skeptical of web3, I dig cryptocurrency but all this nonsense about NFTs and metaverse and whatever is just that, nonsense. But there is one glaring mistake in the article, and one I often see in arguments against web3, that is the idea that the internet becomes some pay to play thing. First of all, running services costs money. Running services for free costs money, it just doesn't cost you money. So you're asking someone to either do you a solid, or get paid another way. And 9 out of 10 times they choose the latter, and track you and sell the data. You pay, one way or another. So all the concept does is allow people to pay for services they use that someone else provides them. Think about renting a rack vs a vps, now imagine making that sort of service more granular. Things get cheaper when you do that. Things become more egalitarian, you're on equal footing online with providers. When was the last time we could say that? And when someone tries to make a web3 version of something that doesn't require all that nonsense, people will make free alternatives. And if those alternatives serve the same needs, the ones that cost micro transactions will wither on the vine. So the market takes care of it. Web3 will serve the roles that it serves best, and things that are better done different ways will be done differently. I'm skeptical of anyone telling me the world will run on this stuff, but to say it doesn't offer some utility, at this point you're deluding yourself. Time will tell what utility it truly provides, but one thing's for sure, this idea of a free as in beer internet isn't working out.