I appreciate your response, but dude, you're just performing mental gymnastics that avoids saying, "NFTs solve nothing". In Kanban and Lean systems management, NFTs and crypto provide zero value to the producer or the consumer. Nothing is gained through the extra hoops.

Want to "sponsor" an artist, how is an NFT any better than mailing them a five dollar bill or sending them $5 through paypal? The "someone takes a cut" argument is null because someone is always going to get a cut no matter the system and that includes NFT. What does the NFT do special? Does it magically make the $5 dollars spent a $10 dollar bill without the need for market speculation? Because then it's smarter to just gift the artist a treasury bond or gamestop stock at that point. But again, most people don't like "gifting". They prefer buying prints or do-dads from the artist. Something they can get to mess with or decorate. An NFT is just... eh? It's as unique as naming a blank text file a random 32bit hash. Sure, it's got a unique name that's probably never existed in all of time like a 7-times shuffled deck of cards... but so what? There's a ledger that says you "have" that unique string which gives you the ability to... say you have it?

Yea, venues and artists make rules for the nature of their performances. Why can't they? "You buy a ticket, you can't resell it." I wonder why they would do that... OH RIGHT! Because assholes with a fuckton of money would just buy out all the tickets to a popular concert (like the '05 The Killers concert in Tampa... fucking bastards, I'm still angry over that shit) and resell them at triple the price so poor fans/teens can't attend! You think maybe those pesky venues are not just protecting their own wallets but making sure the average schmuck isn't screwed out of participating in events? This is why I absolutely hate crypto folks. You have zero clue how or why the rules are in place in our current systems. After smoking a bowl, you skim a few manifestos and, "I know it all maaaaan." Ten minute youtube cartoons can't teach you about, "The truth to money". You keep saying it provides value to people. Where? Do you know what that means? Adding value means it's solving some sort of problem in a way that can't be done in other, simpler means. It's another one of those $400 over engineered juicers that squeezed a pre-juiced pouch into a glass. Pouches that could be hand squeezed faster than the machine could. That's not value. That's mental masturbation.

An Ethereum NFT transaction, one transaction, single, is 60 kWh: https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption That's no 5 pennies. That's 2 days worth of average household energy usage. PoW and PoS are energy hogs, get out of your cult.

The cult of crypto is a, "I don't like the old players had a headstart to the game. I'm changing the rules for me." Yea, it sucks. Millennial here. Fresh in the job market and the economy raw dogged us all. Grow up. For one, the wannabe new system is flawed and unsustainable already. This push is so damn disingenuous of, "there are no problems, everything is perfect, this is the way" it's far more sinister that the archaic system. A generation will go by and they're going to want to ruin the new system because they weren't apart of the last "wealth redistribution". No great revolution really helped the poor in history. They just transferred power from one set of assholes to another. The honeymoon period is when the most poor people suffer.

Why am I mad? I got real angry too when those bastards with a dehumidifier in Hawaii won an XPrize purse on "solving" water supply issues in arid African countries. Now, it only works in a select few, high humidity locales that are better served cheaper and faster with a well and water purifier. Perhaps I'm sick of good tech and ideas being passed up for venture capital because con artists gallivant around with their bullshit "I'm going to change the world for a better place. All you have to do is give me lots of money and not question me." We all want to scream and cry about how no one is putting money in research that "matters". Yea, well, $70m for an alphanumeric string that amounts to fake... it's not even ownership or anything. You can't call it ownership. It's literally nothing. You get nothing. This is the most outrageous con, I swear. Maybe I'm just pissed I didn't make up this con myself or this is going to sideline the greats like Victor Lustig.

Crypto was also claimed to help the poor obtain wealth. Yea, well $70m goes a long way on buying bags of rice and wheat to feed the poor. Would have been better spent that way.