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I think a whole generation of people has been conditioned to click and buy meaningless stuff through "free" games with digital purchases. I think part of the NFT craze hooks up to this impulse.

The goal is to disrupt the high-end art and Verblen goods money laundering scheme [1] and replace it with a digital (and thus more easily fungible and transferable and less trackable) one.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_does_money_laundering_...

"Information wants to be free." is the famous Stewart Brand quote.

but people often forget the rest of the quote "Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away."

NFTs address that tension. mass distribution and exclusivity.