NFT-boosters perversely acknowledge that the buyers are buying only the opportunity to boast how much they spent. It is conspicuous consumption publicly stripped of any possible other good.

Therapists and consultants say that they help their clients by charging them a lot of money, because that influences them to respect the service more. By saying this, they are not being irrational themselves, but they are showing disrespect for their clients by presuming they judge foolishly.

The NFT boosters that sneer at "right-clicker mentality" take a further step into absurdity: they claim that the people they manipulate are right to think in that perverse way.