We don't talk about it much anymore, since the cool kids said it was square, but proof of brain is the game we are playing.
Voting on yourself gives you both halves of the rewards your vote entitles you to.
If everybody did that hive would be straight proof of stake.
Straight proof of stake gives proof of wallet.
I'm sure many of us can agree that the rich getting richer simply for already being rich is not a game we want to play.
We've already had the curation game turned into proof of wallet because the coders enabled the greedy to break the game's original design with their bots.
IF we had continued the tradition of the whale experiment, and had community support across the board, we could get back to the original ideals as sold in 2016, but never really practiced because greed.
Maybe we could see #3 on coingecko as we did back then.
Hive is a commons, what hurts the least of us hurts us all.
I know the crapitalusts will choke on that, but I didn't train them in economics, their economic masters did.
'The rich get richer because that is how the rich want it, if they didn't, they would make things change.'
So, here we are a microcosm of the broader world trying to force crapitalism onto a communistic endeavor.
Rather than allow the design to change us, we changed the design.
It's rarely a good idea to try to improve upon genius, far too few are up to the task.