Naku po! I went on a smoke break before I can put my take on this one 😂. Personal development is a huge thing for me. If I took some actions (today) or applied it in reality there are only two reactions either good or bad. If the next day comes whatever the outcome is I will accept it, no regrets and learned from it.
The answer is clearly on their faces and yet blinded by it. Here is the because part Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. The best quote out there..Pinaghain na kita susubuan pa ba kita?
On that note, someone is telling a story a group of people gathered there are laughers, mockers, confused and believers. Do we removed the others and take only the believers? IMHO no we need all the groups of people to build a community in that way the community supports the Hive Blockchain as a whole.
We have a small community on Discord the Rice Group. We are taking baby steps towards a new beginning to change the system of the Filipino mindset in this blockchain (balyena is the bida). As a Filipino we (Rice Group) believe that the power is in your hands (HP) we can be balyena!
We will open the flood gates soon for our fellow Filipinos (we just need more coffees and more talks 😀).
And in my opinion, casting out dead weights makes everything efficient on record or prove a point that removing them is inconsequential. If one wants to be rewarded by the community, it has to be by their merits, this is what I believe anyway.
I don't want to invest my resources in people that siphon off value for personal gain in excess when there is a system in place where you can share the resources and be a team player where everyone wins. We're here for the money but there's at least some balance with greed vs altruism at play. Between someone that does something for the community vs someone that just passively exist as a community member, I'd be more than willing to invest my time on the former than the latter because that builds them up to do more for others.
There's no problem if you setup a community where everyone is welcome and gets a piece of the pie for doing absolutely nothing to earn their keep. Just don't complain about it when value doesn't get reciprocated. Seeing the Filipino community from steemit blockchain days up to now just enforces my beliefs that my efforts should be directed more to specific few that have an interest in building the community better than when they found it than those that just exist by name as a community member.
EDIT: That's partly the reason why the initiation channel on discord exists, so we let community members vouch for one another whether they earned their roles. I believe everyone deserves the type of community they have eventually. This means everyone had played a role in commission or omission in shaping the community.
100% agree on this one! They reap on what they sow!