[kriro]

I find it only natural. The free-ish market is one of the greatest things about humankind. I find the complexity, information movements etc. highly fascinating. Trying to beat the market essentially means that you're very interested in how mankind works at a core level. Academically that's very interesting and it's nice that the tokens you use to keep track of how successful you are happen to be money.

Additionally at least in theory they do help allocating capital to better uses which has giant leverage effects on the economy as a whole. I'd argue more efficient capital allocation and innovation (in the Schumpeterian sense) are both very valuable. I couldn't make a value judgment of what's more valuable tbh