When developers prioritize extraction over sustainability, the math tells a grim story. Turning $150k profit on a $350k market cap might look opportunistic in the moment, but it's essentially a death sentence—the moment these tokens launch, they're engineered to collapse. Here's the catch: if this extraction culture became the norm for builders, we'd never have seen the community projects that actually mattered. The projects we loved existed precisely because developers chose a different path.