Truth hurts, but this is actually a misconception. It’s not just people like Dayu who have already “made it, big tail,” but also many who are working on projects—the “big hustler wannabes” who fall into this trap. There are definitely more people in the world who want to get rich quick than those who need to preserve wealth. Because the poor are essentially the wealth of the rich. If more poor people become rich, it actually means the resources of the upper-class wealthy decrease. At that point, either the threshold for being “rich” gets raised (inflation), or there’s an effort to push some people from the edges of the wealthy class down a level. This is a structural issue, not a matter of values. On a macro level, this structure is inherently a zero-sum game. That’s why casinos are always the most valuable and hotly contested institutions in human sociology—because they represent the lowest-cost, fastest way for the lower class to rise up. Bet everything for a chance to turn the tables. The value of this institution is asymmetrical: For those in the upper class who’ve already made it, they don’t need it, and they’ll do everything they can to restrict and discredit it. Because if more people from the lower class rise through this narrow door, it indirectly means their own wealth shrinks. And most financial planning (not investing) can barely help the upper class keep pace with the upward shift of the “wealth divide line,” and most of it is highly replaceable. What they want are high-barrier opportunities for gambling, or even someone to gamble on their behalf (cue the myth of various funds), to chase an alpha. But of course, they won’t admit they’re gambling—they’ll package it as “investing.” For the lower class, any so-called “non-zero-sum” path to upward mobility requires leveraging the resources of the upper class—whether it’s “meeting a benefactor” or being exploited. Only the “casino” is truly “fair” for the lower class: based on relatively fixed rules, not needing to rely on the whims of the upper class, and simply requiring you to risk everything to turn the tables. You talk about zero-sum, about how one person’s success comes at the cost of countless others. Exactly. If it weren’t like this, how would the ratio of rich to poor be maintained? How would the rich remain rich? So it’s not just the crypto world—Web2’s best businesses are also packaged as various forms of “investment,” “trading,” and “self-improvement” casinos (even matchmaking is a form of gambling, akin to betting on jade stones). But casinos come in two types: high-barrier casinos and low-barrier casinos. In fact, in a certain sense, running a low-barrier/no-barrier casino is almost like doing charity.