CT is so fucked up that some of the most “successful” accounts in this space are simply people who got really good at using their influence to repeatedly extract money from their own followers through memes. Somehow these are your idols. They snipe memecoins and bundle them before everyone else, pass them around their inner circles, invent a shit narrative around them, then share them with thousands of followers who think they’re getting alpha. Afterwards they come on X and write essays about their trades. They post charts. They do TA on fucking memes. They reflect on their wins and losses as if they were real traders documenting their journey. Brother you just bought before everyone else and then told 200,000 people how bullish you were. Most of these people don’t possess some magical trading ability that you lack. They have influence, an inner circle, information advantages and, most importantly, the willingness to use other people as exit liquidity without caring. The game looks very different when you’re playing from the front of the line. This is what worries me most about CT. Newcomers see accounts turning $10k into $100k or $100k into $1M and think “If I study harder, trade better and find memes earlier, maybe I can do it too.” So they gamble their savings trying to replicate a game they were never given the same pieces to play. They don’t have the cabal. They don’t have the audience. They don’t get the token before everyone else. They can’t create liquidity with a tweet. They’re playing a completely different game while thinking they’re competing in the same one. There’s a massive difference between marketing and social manipulation. There’s a massive difference between building distribution and weaponizing it against the people who trust you. There’s also a massive difference between trading a market and having the ability to move the market you’re trading. That distinction has basically disappeared on CT. It’s become one huge bubble of bullshit where survivorship bias is presented as skill, gambling as trading, influence as alpha and extraction as entrepreneurship. I am sure that 99.9% of you will not build lasting wealth trading memecoins. Even among the tiny percentage who temporarily make life-changing money, many will eventually give most of it back because they never actually learned how to build wealth. They learned how to gamble. If you built your fortune turning 10 SOL into 100 SOL by taking insane risk, what do you think happens when you reach 1000 SOL? You keep doing what got you there until eventually it takes it away. Making money and building wealth are two completely different skills. Build skills. Build businesses. Build relationships. Build distribution without abusing it. Own productive assets. Invest. Create things people actually value. If you want to gamble sometimes, sure, gamble a bit and have a lot of fun bro. Just don’t confuse the casino for the path to financial freedom. Gambling is a luxury. A lucky streak can make you rich, but only a foundation will keep you rich.