Yeah, fair point. We could also include all the "blitzscaling" nonsense, which, given its ability to soak up far more capital, is much more attractive to VCs, allowing a pump-and-dump on a titanic scale.

But I saw so many entrepreneurs getting pulled into blockchain-ish spaces thinking they could do some good. Even given that most of the money would have gone to something else terrible, there were a lot of people who might have focused on actually useful things.