Thanks. I just finished listening to the Bobby Hundreds Complex interview, and -- in addition to your valid assertion that sneaker collecting is absolutely *absurd* -- my opinion on the ridiculosity of NFTs and the metaverse has shifted a little bit away from the negativity I previously expressed. It *is* gambling, and nearly all of us who claim that "I have never gambled in my life and never will" are actually *lying*. What really made me "get it" was realizing that I have actually participated in the identifying and emotionalizing of the virtual sneaker metaverse when I made and posted a "GOT 'EM" graphic that featured the recent Adidas Forum Hi 84 shoes... and I haven't even unpacked or photographed my own actual physical pair yet!! Absolutely absurd. And yet it felt so gratifying to create and post that graphic. Adidas should have paid me! ;-)
The way I see it, we are just starting to discover how NFTs open up new worlds of buying and selling. It's similar to how the Apple Store enabled anyone who barely knew how to code to produce an app and make thousands of dollars -- one $3.00 sale at a time. A good friend of mine created a *restaurant tip calculator* and ended up quitting his day job at Cisco because of his Apple Store earnings. I see the "creation" of wealth based on bizarro 8-bit graphics in the same vein. I'm not ready to quit my six-figure software engineering day job (which I do find fulfilling and productive) for this stuff. But I don't begrudge others who pull it off.
Owning NFTs tied to art or sneakers is not for me right now, but at least I acknowledge that NFT has the potential to transform many industries in the next few years.
Thanks. I just finished listening to the Bobby Hundreds Complex interview, and -- in addition to your valid assertion that sneaker collecting is absolutely *absurd* -- my opinion on the ridiculosity of NFTs and the metaverse has shifted a little bit away from the negativity I previously expressed. It *is* gambling, and nearly all of us who claim that "I have never gambled in my life and never will" are actually *lying*. What really made me "get it" was realizing that I have actually participated in the identifying and emotionalizing of the virtual sneaker metaverse when I made and posted a "GOT 'EM" graphic that featured the recent Adidas Forum Hi 84 shoes... and I haven't even unpacked or photographed my own actual physical pair yet!! Absolutely absurd. And yet it felt so gratifying to create and post that graphic. Adidas should have paid me! ;-)
The way I see it, we are just starting to discover how NFTs open up new worlds of buying and selling. It's similar to how the Apple Store enabled anyone who barely knew how to code to produce an app and make thousands of dollars -- one $3.00 sale at a time. A good friend of mine created a *restaurant tip calculator* and ended up quitting his day job at Cisco because of his Apple Store earnings. I see the "creation" of wealth based on bizarro 8-bit graphics in the same vein. I'm not ready to quit my six-figure software engineering day job (which I do find fulfilling and productive) for this stuff. But I don't begrudge others who pull it off.
Owning NFTs tied to art or sneakers is not for me right now, but at least I acknowledge that NFT has the potential to transform many industries in the next few years.