There's a lot be said for how demotivating a sense of relative reward injustice can be.
Remember Exyle's double daily ritual of putting up something interesting and then a life update - like a picture of him grinning with his plate of steak or a 50 word update about his trip to the cinema with his dad - Boom! $40 a pop for those.
Seeing that made me want to leave back in the day.
Probably people look at my rewards now and feel the same!
I was planning to compare to the heady days of Steem, but the query I used was getting a bit excessive so I made sure to limit it to only 2020 and onwards. I would still like to do it if I can optimize the query, I'm not great at SQL.
I believe that we have gotten much better at "relative rewards" today and also fair compensation compared to the days of Steem.
Oh yes I think things are much better too!
Great analysis series this btw, keep them coming!
I actually just made the charts for the days of Steem. TLDR: Yes, it was worse back then, we have gotten a lot better.
https://peakd.com/hive-133987/@demotruk/re-demotruk-redt1p