Absolutely, my point was that the social phenomenon of paying money for digital conspicuous consumption is already here with or without NFT's, though I'm solidly in the camp that NFT's don't add value in this interaction.

Taking what I had intended to say one step further, if you look at the denominator of "people who participate in digital conspicuous consumption," the NFT people that this article discusses is just a niche/fringe in a movement that already has lots of momentum.

Personally, I hope the digitization leads to far more people becoming creators and not just consumers, but I'm not holding my breath for that outcome.