The fan’s spinning slow, like it’s tired too. I’m lying on my back, phone resting on my chest, screen dimmed but still bright enough to light up the ceiling. Everyone’s asleep—Ammi’s soft breathing from the next room, the street dogs finally quiet. I sip cold chai, the kind that’s been sitting too long, and scroll through crypto feeds. That’s when I see it again: Fabric Foundation’s $ROBO airdrop.
They talk about human-machine alignment, transparency, access for all. Big words. Beautiful ones. But the tokens? Mostly went to GitHub contributors, early devs, the usual crypto crowd. I didn’t qualify. Neither did my cousin Bilal, who’s been building AI tools for local clinics—no wallet, no repo, just raw code and heart. He’s not “in the ecosystem,” whatever that means.
I’m not angry. Just...quietly disappointed. Fabric says it’s about aligning incentives with human values. But if the incentives only reach the same circles, what values are we really scaling?
I stare at the ceiling, fan blades slicing the dark. Maybe it’s just early days. Maybe they’ll fix it. But I keep wondering—if the structure favors insiders now, before the world’s watching, what happens when it grows? Does the mission bend to the math, or can it hold?
@Fabric Foundation #ROBO $ROBO
