@HeavenlyPossum it's the law of capitalism that the market will extract the maximum amount of value that the participants are able to pay. (But this is only for a perfectly spherical market in a vacuum, see below*)
I know nobody here likes shitcoins, but Ethereum's MEV problem is one of the best examples of the "free market" mercilessly extracting its unearned toll from its participants.
The only winning move in capitalism is not to play ✨