I heard the argument many times during the election "He's already so wealthy, there's no reason to be corrupt." or better yet "He's so wealthy he can't be bought." I think though both ideas are spawned from the same problem. The issue is that the average American is grossly unaware of how much the number $1 billion is. Most people make a small leap from $1000 to $1 million don't realize the magnitude of difference there is between those amounts. Americans think in thousands scumbags think in billions or trillions.
When that amount of money on the line it attracts scum lords from all walks of life to it. People don't realize that the amount of money tied up in lobbying, promoting and polluting public opinion is greater than many small countries' annual budgets. The amount of profit and returns on investment have to be astronomical to make it worth their while.
With that amount of money nearly everything in America has a price and that's unfortunate. Money does not equal integrity but many people equate those things.
/rant
Great point. A major problem in thinking is that people think others are like them, that others think like them. So since they personally wouldn't do something, they think others won't do it either. Money seems to rule a lot on Steemit. pay-to-play for upvotes, self-voting craze mixed with that has people create multiple accounts to use the pay-to-play and give themselves multiple dollar comment rewards. Check out this users comments for example, no posts: leejin-33
Thanks for the feedback.
That is ridiculous. It's soooooo easy to just read posts and formulate thoughtful responses. Guess some people just can't be bothered to do that 10 times a day. I'm to new that my vote doesn't do much so I try to use it to curate more established users. Combining that with thoughtful responses has worked pretty well for me. In some ways I wish comment voting worked differently than post voting. Right now it's rare for discussions to go anywhere in comments, I think it's since people don't see much incentive to do so.
Makes me think of this.
Honestly that picture's text represents a lot of what is happening for some :\