Most celebrities are fake.

I don’t mean that they’re insincere, immature, or require a lot of makeup, though they’re probably that, too. I mean that they’re created out of thin air like fiat money.

It used to be that fame was reserved for the truly deserving. You had to have significance, importance. At least a modicum of talent. But nowadays, that’s not what’s needed, at least in the conventional sense.

Conventional celebrity goes to the people that are connected, the people that are chosen for their roles, whether through nepotism, bribery or being at the right place at the right time.

Think Anderson Cooper made it by his merits? Think again. He’s an heir to the Vanderbilt fortune and it’s not a coincidence that he’s the face of CNN.

Think Greta Thunberg is some prodigy? Her mom is an environmentalist and a member of the Green Party. She’s been groomed for the role she’s playing now. She didn’t make it on her merits or her ability to speak. She got the publicity because her mom hyped her up. The narrative around her is as fake as the fiat system she’s from.

Thankfully, we have the internet and if the internet is anything, it’s a meritocracy. And it’s a meritocracy because it’s decentralized. The people that succeed are almost always people you wouldn’t expect. They’re not the Harvard MBAs or the professors in sociology or someone conventionally successful. They’re always the oddballs, the outcasts, the people you would never expect that succeed.

And that’s a good thing because the world of celebrity, like I said is fake. And this is why it’s important to keep the net decentralized. We saw in the past three years an attempt to centralize it. But we’re seeing that it wasn’t successful. We’re seeing more platforms than ever.

Let merit reign!