traditional markets privilege capital because capital is scarce and labor is commoditized. but in crypto, the opposite seems to be true.

today, most of the value in crypto flows to capital. early buyers, private investors or fast bots. labor, on the other hand (aka actual contribution) lags behind.

people who write code, educate others, run infrastructure, grow networks, create art, build trust… too often they’re paid last, or not at all.

this is an economic imbalance.

capital is abundant. there’s too much money chasing too few meaningful things.

what’s scarce is committed labor: attention, care and contribution.

we’ve built incentive systems that treat capital as the main input. we have let money buy stake, shape governance, and capture the narrative while real labor stays remains unpaid, or unnoticed.

if we want to build networks that last, we need to flip this…we need to reward labor first.

this is where launchpads come in:

a good launchpad doesn’t just sell tokens, it distributes them to the right people in a way that builds culture and commitment.

what if we treated distribution more like mining again not just proof of work in a technical sense, but in a social one,

proof of contribution, proof of context, proof of building, proof of evangelism.

what if launchpads became systems that reward labor as much as liquidity.

capital can start the fire but labor is what keeps it alive.