Recently, a whole new wave of social mining/points/identity cards has been dominating the screens again. I’ll admit it—I’ve got a bit of an itch to go in and grab some of it too. But when I think it through, my head just starts spinning: all day doing tasks, making posts, keeping chats open, and in the end getting a badge—only to find the settlement isn’t even enough for a meal’s gas. In plain terms, it’s using time as capital.

That whole “blockchain game” crash scenario is basically the same. Once inflation kicks in and studios move in, the token price spirals, and ordinary people end up having to grind harder and harder—until they’re just someone else’s liquidity. Anyway, I’m leaning more toward this now: automate what can be automated; if it can’t, set a limit—if it goes beyond that, I won’t touch it. Even with small funds, you want to run efficiently, but don’t end up running yourself into the ground. That’s it for now.