I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that the average crypto participant is extremely fatigued by the constant goalpost and narrative shifting this industry has gone through to date.
That fatigue is, and will continue to be, having a psychological impact on people’s investment theses going forward.
The unravelling of “alt szn”, and now the questioning of the point of holding majors outside of BTC, is proof of this transition. The only real use case in more than 10 years of this industry existing is stablecoins.
Sure, BTC is a store of value, but only when it actually stores value. Nothing else has been built but a giant casino. That’s simply not interesting going into the second half of the 2020s, especially when you have narratives like A.I showing tangible changes to society in orders of magnitude less time than crypto’s big promises ever have.
If this industry is to be "successful" it needs to move beyond the extractive rinse repeat modelling and build something of lasting value that normal people actually need.
Otherwise, it sits firmly in the “niche but interesting” category, and the value proposition of its inception goes unrealised.
Probably bullish for ETH in the long term. Short term just adds more confusion and lack of clarity.
It's a technical argument but think they just realized they hijack the value. The whole L2/L3 as the scalability path never made sense to me.
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The surgery is real straightforward, very high success rate. I got some scar tissue, which is possible but not guaranteed, and it worked itself out over time. The risk of re-herniation isn’t notably higher after surgery, and I’ve made a full recovery back to weight lifting (slowly), trail running, sitting at a desk, etc.
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Lainey turned six months this week!
The last half year has flown by. Sleep’s become a luxury, but nothing compares to being a dad.
Easily the most rewarding days of my life. God is good! 🙏
⚡️This whole “don’t have a job, bet on yourself” ideology is the new religion of a collapsing system.
It’s the gospel of a generation that no longer trusts institutions - but still can’t imagine meaning outside of monetization.
It’s capitalism’s final metamorphosis: the spiritualization of the hustle. The corporate ladder is dying, so now the sermon says: “Be your own corporation.” It sounds rebellious. It feels free. But it’s the same master wearing your face.
Because think about it - what is “betting on yourself” really?
It’s turning your life into a perpetual start-up. Every thought becomes content. Every skill becomes product. Every relationship becomes a network node. You stop being human and start being a portfolio.
It’s not freedom - it’s the privatization of the soul.
That’s what this rhetoric misses. It isn’t that jobs are safe or noble. It’s that the alternative she offers is still inside the same cage - just with better lighting and a motivational soundtrack.
The real break isn’t leaving the job.
The real break is leaving the frame that says your worth must scale.
If you’re still measuring success by how much you can extract, grow, or automate from your existence, you haven’t escaped anything. You’ve just upgraded your chains.
And here’s the darker layer - the reason this message resonates so powerfully right now: people feel the collapse coming. The system is cannibalizing itself. Institutions, currencies, media, trust - all hollowing out. So people cling to the only illusion of control left: the self as enterprise.
“Own something. Monetize something. Become unfireable.”
It’s the survival instinct of a late-stage civilization that knows it’s running out of meaning.
But the next paradigm won’t be built by those who win that game.
It’ll be built by those who walk away from it - who realize that the system itself is unsustainable because it feeds on human exhaustion, financial anxiety, and perpetual motion.
The real power move is not scaling, but disconnecting.
Not becoming your own product, but refusing to be one.
And that’s the truth nobody sells, because there’s no way to package it.
There’s no affiliate link for wholeness.
So when she says, “Bet on yourself,” what I actually hear is:
“The system’s breaking. You’re on your own now.”
And she’s right about that - but she still can’t see the bigger revelation hiding inside it:
The next evolution of freedom won’t come from winning capitalism. It’ll come from transcending it.