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by sirsinsalot 1856 days ago
I mean it's what happens when entry barriers to "invest" are low enough and you have meme marketing. Everyone in the middle of the bell curve piles in and things of average reasoning happen. A bit like football making billions from people watching some people kick a ball about. You can monetise the banal with fun.
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> football making billions from people watching some people kick a ball about

Presumably ritualized tribal combat has a long history.

As does religion.

And collecting trinkets