"Somehow this is essential for NFTs" <br>Yes, Simply letting people "make it" is just not allowed, society fundamentally functions based on exploitation, for you to gain, someone else must lose, think of something as basic as jobs, people lower ranked earn less than the value they generate. Even if you're just scanning items all day you could be executing sales worth thousands, even if you only got a tiny percent of that you'd be making A LOT of money, but what would happen if your employer actually paid you a fair wage? You'd make enough money and quit, you'd leverage your earnings and do something else. <br>The only way for your boss to afford his 3rd car is for him to exploit your labor. <br><br>Crypto is this land of bounty, it really is, and to defend that bounty every single person who happens upon it will be rugged, scammed and hacked until they give up or until they become part of a very small group of people doing the rugging, doing the scamming or doing the hacking.