These days, the secondary market is again arguing over whether royalties should be paid or not.

I also want to side with the creators verbally, but inwardly I can't help but calculate: would reducing that friction cost make transactions easier...
Honestly, I'm the kind of person who wants to jump in when things get lively.
But if royalties are really cut off, what will creators rely on to keep producing?
Rely on love for the art? I just can't do that.

What's even funnier is that everyone is shouting support for creation, while watching large transfers on the blockchain as "smart money" copying the play.
Just now, I was curious and took a quick look—0x7b…e21 moved 480 ETH from a hot wallet on an exchange to a cold wallet, and the group immediately started interpreting it as "they're about to pump or dump."
I almost bought in too... then I remembered the last time I FOMO bought that one NFT, now it's just sitting on the floor, pretending to be dead.

Maybe there won't be a perfect answer to the royalty issue in the end, but at least don't use "free market" as an excuse to casually take away creators' livelihoods.
For now, I’ll step away from the buy button for a bit.