Things need to change. We are NOT in a bull market
If you look under that VIMM proposal, you'll see where I suggested rebranding "curation reward" into something more suitable for their market. I've been talking about how people support content online with their own money since before it was so commonplace because I picked up on the trend early. Often met by blank stares or opposition stemming from individuals attempting to protect their vision of what should happen here.
Attracting that crowd interested in supporting content, with proper execution, would make a "bull market" look like peanuts. And the momentum would continue as more content people want to support is created. Each individual creating things people actually want to support creates a decentralized revenue stream for themselves. Altogether, a decentralized revenue stream for Hive that's hard to stop.
Instead, we do it the way we do it since day one. We don't want people to bring their money and support things they enjoy with votes. We want to attract "crypto investors" looking for a return, and tell them to automate everything and walk away. So any tokens purchased end up in the pockets of creators not causing much of a stir. That money is eventually on its way out or recycled into support not stemming from the outside. The "investors" wait for the mystical bull run, kill the momentum by selling "curation rewards" and put us, here.
Round and round we go. Look what we have. All these tools, benefits, and products meant to improve the lives of regular people go to waste, so we can attract crypto people and pray to the bull market gods for miracles. And working towards being successful daily doesn't stop the bull market from happening, but it does remove the trampled earth in its wake.
Based on my observations stemming from reality, we have the ability to offer legit products people are interested in supporting, year round, regardless of market conditions. And we don't even try unless throwing a wrench in the works is still considered to be an effort these days.
And now it's starting to look like a situation where if that ball did get rolling, the acceleration would slow due to friction caused by the forever accelerating HBD interest. Sickens me to think all that momentum would be destroyed just to pad a few wallets.
I'm just jotting down notes, don't mind me. But I think it's important to point out once again just how cheap the cost of something like VIMM proposal is when compared to potential income. But we'll never reach anything close to that potential by doing things the same way they've been done since day one.
And I'll throw this comment in just to tie a few thoughts together:
https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@nonameslefttouse/re-azircon-sin5st