So I just read a article by @themarkymark
https://steemit.com/steem/@themarkymark/hodling-steem-power-makes-steem
And I have a question for the community. If you go and purchase a apartment complex, are you going to charge rent based off of the feeling of others? Probably not, but that’s kind of the situation we have here on this platform.
We have a division of classes, those who got in early and paid little for the influence they have, so they have collected their initial investment and are all House money. Second you have those who have joined the platform and haven’t added any monetary assests. So at any point can walk away no harm no foul, and not miss a beat
Last you have a group that have come in and invested a substantial sum of money and are in s precarious position of wanting to recoup their investment as quickly as possible as this would make the most business sense, but here on steemit it is frowned upon.
Here you have a 2 groups that have either little to no financial ties to the platform as they with got here early or didn’t bother investing, telling those who have paid a large fee what to do. Now I am all for the greater good but this is still a for profit platform, because if it wasn’t everyone should decline all payouts in their post.
I fall into the group that paid the money for the position, and though I have no issue with growing the community I do have a issue with people acting entitled. We have come to the point where people feel that just because someone has more they are required to lift everyone up along the way. I don’t find this to be the case for a few reasons.
I could have just as easily purchased a znode and collected the same if not more in payments then I do on this platform, and no one in the Zcoin community would tell me how I spend it.
Like any investment the key is to recoupe initial before heavily redistributing, in this case it would be cursting vs selling vote.
A lot of times as you fill everyone’s cup, no one is filling your pitcher. To many times have I had post where folks would comment and ask for upvotes and not even bother doing the same, then have the nerve to upvote some mega whale shit post.
If you bought a abandoned property and spent 100k on repairing it and recieve 400 a month profits. How many of you are giving 100 to your favorite charity each month? Especially before you have broken even.
Look I am far from a prick, but at the end Of the day I am still a business man. Good economics say take care of companies needs before bolstering that of another. So how can you be mad at those that may not have anything else but what steem provides.
Also I ask anyone take the time and watch the patterns of those critizing how votes are handled. Go through and see how many never power up but send their sbd directly to exhangsz to be sold. Can you really expect to leave the minnow stage of you never actually invest in yourself?
I think I have posted enough that people will know that I do want the greater good. At the same time my blood sweat and tears came at a cost, and for it to be discounted is unfair.
