If you pick up a lot of pennies and never get crushed then it's really no one's business. Actually, it's none of their business anyways. Freedom maxis get it.
I barely understand pennies or steamrollers, so I'll stick to wiring buildings.
"they can't scrape together the cash for a down payment. Not because they're broke."
Respectfully, I'd like to suggest that people being broke is perhaps a much larger part of the story.
A quick Google search suggests that anywhere from 10-30% of Americans have a negative net worth, nevermind being enough in the positive for a down payment.
This is where I think Lyn Alden might be onto something.
Big prints have been conspicuous due to their spikiness. If they just do it at a constant rate without letting up, it becomes the new norm, not some anomaly.
Of course, the system will still break at some point, but I suspect they will get away with it longer using this strategy.
It's not as bad yet, but it's definitely got its tentacles into Nostr too. Not surprising given the strong crossover interest with AI in the Bitcoin community.
On the one end of the spectrum, one might use AI to merely pull quotes of things they've previously said and automate posting them. On the other end of the spectrum there's pure slop; shiny generated pictures, em dashes and all. Somewhere in between might be taking things you've said previously and expanding on them in "your" voice.