I sometimes listen to Russian radio and run it through Google translate. It's endless pseudo-philosophy that just goes on for hours and hours. Feels like it's a trope in the Russian world.
And yet we have brains. This brute force approach to machine learning is quite effective but has problems scaling. So, new energy sources or new thinking?
I live in a Nordic country, we have carts which need a coin, most people have a thing on their keychain to unlock a cart, majority of carts are returned.
You can short it at open and hope you have enough collateral to withstand a lot of volatility through the hype cycle. Long term I expect you'd win but it wouldn't be comfy getting there.
If buying is not owning, copying is not stealing. Simple as that.