Top-down financing is antithetical to organic growth, which is the essence of life. Nobody got rich winning the lottery.

Money is certainly not a bad thing, but you have to also earn your place in the world before you ask for more.

Plebeian Market is much simpler in what it does compared to OpenBazaar, but we think that in the long run it'll get much further, exactly because we are hungry and foolish.

The fact that Brian Hoffman, after failing that, went on to build auctions on centralized blockchains is quite telling: he understands "decentralization" without understanding Decentralization. Decentralization starts with the plebs, from the roots.