

People also just like commanding attention and having influence and perceived power within a community
It doesn’t have to be like monetarily profitable.
We see in all subcultures there are simply people who enjoy exercising control and power. It’s their distorted source of social gratification










Religion is premised on invisible unprovable things so I’d expect them to never be convinced of anything
Flat earthers and UFO crap is premised on obviously disprovable stuff so it’s really the exact opposite of religion