People will always try to profit from a system, the ideal of capitalism in general is to harness that sometimes apparent negative energy and make people work for it or at least have to expend more energy then the easier task of just being useful within the capital value system.    This line of thinking probably applies to crypto, its given people want to short cut a way to profit from just about any blockchain in existence.  Its not the exception, its the rule so just seems relevant to pop vs pos vs pow discussion imo.