I just wanted to chip in with a basic thought I had last night on movements in the 'ethical discourse' on steemit...
My concern, following @frystkitten's recent video, is that he's now redefined 'ethical' behavior (or rather shifted the discourse surrounding ethics) as leasing to a voting bot, because contrasted to what haejin's been doing, well, that is more 'ethical'.
HOWEVER, merely leasing to a voting bot and then extracting all yer SBDs that way... it's sill hardly good for the long term benefit of the platform as the value ('use' value if you like) has to come from somewhere, which mere leasing does nothing to add to.
Personally I think a much healthier attitude to have towards steemit would be to spend maybe 80% of your investment helping other people/ communities grow developing content and then, if you must, use 20% to upvote yourself, lease it, get a little return and take something out to pay the bills!
NB - haven't actually watched the video yet (can't right now as I need to head off to the coal face) - but I know you're one of the people that generally believes there needs to be a solid base of real people 'creating value' and by actually creating content, doing projects, engaging....manually creating etc...
Will watch later today in full... this is an issue which both interests me, and in which I'm invested, and am thinking about (but holding off) investing further...