I don't understand the point of being gung ho about this. I used to double post until a few weeks ago. It was no longer worth my while because the rewards were too small. But hey, why not reap the rewards while there's something in there? Besides, there are other blockchain-based as well as centralized platforms where one can post one's content. Why would anyone have any problem with that?
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Why not own slaves? It's profitable. If profit is your only value, I consider you a blight on humanity.
Did you really just suggest posting on two block chains is the equivalent to slave owning? Really? Your analogy is faulty and is indicative of a philosophical fallacy. To begin with posting on two block chains is a victimless crime ... no wait, it's not a crime. Come on ... we are all suppose to be libertarians here ... until someone threatens our sphere of power and control. Right. You want to know what R crimes ... extortion, anti-trust, and racketeering. You can choose who you will and not upvote, but using the downvote for anything other than its intended purpose when you have a great deal of power and influence is criminal. I will mirror your words ... support tyranny at your [own] peril.
I think he was just talking hyperbolic nonsense there. Can happen to the best of us from time to time.
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It is a crime to support Steem by being part of it's community, because Steem has become a totalitarian government. The blockchain is merely an infrastructure employed to track data by those who govern, not the government. Steem is a society, and a republic - or it was, as well as a token and a blockchain. You neglect to consider it's governance to avoid holding yourself to account for that governance, because it's slavery you're supporting.
You misapprehend what is at stake. Supporting Steem is literally supporting slavery, because tyranny equally is slavery. It is the eradication of the inherent rights we are made of just as much as we are made of our thoughts, or our physical bodies. In tyranny, just as in slavery, we are no longer sovereign human beings, but property.
I do not support tyranny in any form, and this is why I am utterly free to blacklist whom I will, because that is not forcing anyone else to do so. Your complete lack of comprehension of these principles is breathtaking.
Good luck.
Breathtaking? You flatter, you. Blacklist anyone you like, but you don't get to define what slavery is or a government. Steem is not a government. It owns no land. It does not own me. You could argue it is an internet domain(s) but you are stretching things to claim it is a country. And by your reasoning ... which is based on a faulty analogy ... anyone who lives in a country with human rights violations must move said country or be complicit and be in support of tyranny. Come on. Really? You don't think you are stretching things a little to serve your own agenda and opinion. Or maybe ... you like to stir the proverbial toilet slew. I sure hope it's the second. Cause then we would both be laughing about this.
I am not defining slavery. Slavery is as I have used it, and tyranny makes of all humanity slaves.
Steem is a government because it governs. What do you think voting for witnesses does?
It determines what code comprises the blockchain. It is the mechanism that enables human persons to interact according to established rules. It is government, and even includes mechanisms for funding policy, as all government must. If you claim holding territory is a defining characteristic of government , you underestimate the Vatican, and seem to remain at a level of understanding prior to post-feudal history. What do you think boards of directors do? Every corporation is a government. They govern.
You are a government. You govern the hell out of you every morning when you wake up. You mandate brushing your teeth. You rule you with totalitarian authority.
Sun Yuchen similarly governs Steem with absolute authority, just as you do your corpus. When you form the community of Steem, you literally become his property, creating the basis for value of Steem with your acceptance of your slavery.
If you deny you do a thing, but do it, does that mean it doesn't happen?
No. Just because you deny supporting tyranny but form the community that creates the value of Steem doesn't mean you don't literally hand over money to Sun Yuchen.
It means you're full of shit.
You know what ... I know a tyrant when I interact with one just fine.
Good day to your sir.
LOL
Were I a tyrant I could force you to agree.
Why then would I seek to explain facts to you instead?
Suffer fools gladly, as you do. May you enjoy the company you keep.
Take a cool shower, bro.
P.S. You didn't even answer the question. Why is it wrong to take whatever profit there is to be taken on Steem?
If you do not grasp the explicit answer to your rhetorical questions, nothing I say to you will enable you to do so. However, reasonable people reading our conversation will.
Support tyranny at your peril. That's the simple truth you deny.
I'm assuming Steem is the tyranny here.
Please answer how shitposting to Steem and dumping whatever pennies are earned from that onto the markets is supporting Steem?
The only thing that gives Steem value is it's community.
You are part of that community.
That's how.
The only thing that gives STEEM value is its exchange listings.
There are countless coins without any real communities that still have high valuations.
The possessors of those tokens are communities. They may not have a social media platform linked to the tokens as does Steem, but those communities are generally possessed of common use cases, which for Steem is the social media platform. Even Tron has a community of sorts. It is utterly disingenuous to claim other tokens don't have communities, and contrary to long established and common practice in reporting and discussion of cryptocurrency. Making such a claim is therefore patently false.
Please refrain from false claims. Is your intention to simply prevail in an internet argument, or to actually implement sound policy based on superable principles? Making false claims is only potential of winning the Special Olympics of Internet Arguments, and actively prevents undertaking of sound policies based on reasonable principles.
Not something I've known you for. Hope I don't need to now understand you to intend to do that.
So, to take down a tyranny do tyrant acts yourself?
I am unable to undertake tyranny. I am not empowered to do so.
What I can do is rule myself without reservation whatsoever.
My employment of a blacklist enjoins no one to do so. I only filter my feed.
How is that tyranny?
Threatening/punishing someone with some kind of bad consequence to follow and do exact what you think is the right thing (as long the opposite of what you think is right doesn't cause any direct harm to anyone, but that is why we evolved as are still evolving laws), even when there as opposing opinions on the matter, well... That is basic tyranny.
You don't have to be a ruler to be a tyrant. You can do that on your influence circle.
So, the problem here is not the opinions anyone have about what is right or wrong to do, but to impose this opinion through force (in this case, the threat to flag).
Doing things in this direction will only turn you on the same thing you are claiming that you fight against.
Bullshit. I have no power to force, I am incapable of oppression.
I have been held as a slave for years. I was captured at gunpoint, and forced to work for my very survival.
That's tyranny. My filtering my feed and letting folks know why is freedom and sovereignty, and you don't know the difference.
I do.
I consider it wrong because so I do not positively consider reaping or being profit-minded only. That's me.
My post is only about me wanting to stick to my own values and not support such behavior anymore.
I see. We all have our opinions. You at least understand that they can vary between individuals. Thanks for telling us why you think the way you do.
You know that is not true! You have influence and you are shaming people and inviting others to do what you do.
And why would you consider it raping the reward pool? That is bullshit. Raping the reward pool is that all of you with big accounts are voting for each other and the newcomers don't get a piece of the pie.
You are so wrong!
I think you are looking at it from the entirely wrong angle and haven't thought this one through. Bear with me on this one as you seem to have lost what most people are doing. Earn Steem and power it up to Hive. There will be more Hive staked because of this. i for one have never sold one Steem or Hive and is all powered up. Hive will benefit from this and there is only 3 weeks or so that is left.