Even if someone is well off, it doesn't necessarily mean that they don't want, or shouldn't be rewarded by their work.
Bernie Sanders is rich, but he also profits from his rando whale bot. No one expects him to not profit from it, and no one should expect that.
Many of newcomers that haejin brought to the platform do only vote for him and have not contributed yet to the platform. Most of them have been on the platform for less than 2 months. If those people were given the time to acclimate to the platform, many of them would likely find other content to upvote and probably eventually begin to create content themselves. This war will not encourage that.
This war will also not be good for people following other youtube content creators who have joined the platform. @davidpackman joined steemit about 2 months ago. He is bringing a lot of people to steemit that will likely only follow him at first. He posts multiple times a day, and many of his posts are making more than $100 each.
Should @davidpackman and any other content creators who bring a following and become "too" successful be downvoted too?
I think instead they should be encouraged.
I think they should be encouraged. Bringing more people and more creators to steemit will help the platform grow and help the value of the platform to increase. This is good for everyone.
Thank you for having this discussion with me. There are not many good faith discussions happening on this matter.