Just to clear up what I meant, because we are splitting hairs: what I said is still consistent. The latter case is an obvious statement that people have the freedom to do whatever they so choose. The former was a statement with qualification, that "Whales cannot do what they want without reaction from people that disagree". At least that was the intention, if it wasn't explicit.
Concerning investment vs participation, I'm not disagreeing with you. In fact my point was simply a statement that powering up is the investment, and the participation after is completely optional. A passive investor, for example, will just delegate to projects they like.
I think we see eye to eye on the topics that are of importance.
But actually, there is something that was brought to my attention recently, and I can start to see why you are saying what you are saying. I did not realize that there are people at the top we are not talking about that /are/ doing shady things. I need to investigate further... But my main principle still stands. If you want to target abuse, you target the worst abuser. Now I am trying to figure out whether haejin is actually the worst abuser. And how to cleanly identify something that is clearly bad for Steemit.
For the other points of contention, I don't feel they are worth clarifying, because they really detract from the main point of this conversation. Thanks for your comments.
You too!
I voted up one of your comments because this one was too old.