I do mean benefit as in getting rich. The bigger issue is to do with community behaviour. Ever since crypto has been created, it’s been used as a means to stick it to our current financial system — which I do agree is very flawed.

However, as the movement brought more steam to it, certain norms were developed as well as attitudes that are now baked into this 13 year-long movement.

Depending on the person, change is resisted. The skeptics won’t budge, but that is the same case for the community as well. As long as something still works into their mesh and appeals to the people, it’ll stick around.

And the community knows at this point the only way lines are going up and they can make money is by bringing more fresh faces into the scene to get people interested. To “recruit” people into buying crypto. After all pump and dump schemes and rug pulling are prominent tactics and encapsulate the upwards trends of so many projects and coins themselves at this point.

Because of these aspects and crypto being what it is right now it’s very real to have conversations like this:

“Why didn’t you buy [insert crypto name here]?”

“I was 5 years old at the time.”

When you have a scarcity system, there are people that will fall behind and there is nothing they can do about it.