People really need to stop wasting their time with financial charades and use their time to build systems that actually accomplish things.
It isn't evident that any lasting value is actually being created or that it isn't a zero-sum game.
While the rest of your comment may have some truth in it the different types of stake mechanism should really be understood on HN.
this, has some value in the same way natural selection has value in nature.
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Crypto can also do this, I suppose, but I think most people would admit that their main motivation is for earning money. It is my argument that they stand a much better chance of making a positive sum of money doing something else.