You can speak from opinion, but we speak from data and from the public record of what we have officially published from the SBI account. Steem Basic Income was not designed to make you rich.
The idea and philosophy behind basic income is to provide a basic level of support. On Steem, that means helping members to exceed the dust threshold and provide enough support to help prevent people from getting discouraged.
Since we're not rich (and not getting rich from it), the ROI and structure as investment (where you receive shares when you sponsor others) is to provide enough incentive to encourage people to sponsor others in and fund a basic level of support for Steemians that they perceive to create quality content.
I'm sorry that you completely missed the philosophy of Steem Basic Income, along with completely missing everything about how it works, or the fact that upvote values would be strongly correlated to the market prices of STEEM/SBD, even though we have stated that every single time we talk about about value per share.
Given that more than 60% of members were sponsored in by the other less than 40%, that we only have 12 members with @steemcleaners flags right now (under investigation), and that the total upvote % going to affiliated accounts, or management, is less than your own self-vote percentage, I would say that we're doing something right.
We've upvoted over 3000 people and the retention among those we have upvoted is significantly higher than the platform average. Can you say that for your upvote history?
passing out pennies isn't encouragement... maybe my opinion would be different if i didnt pay for it myself like most other users apparently that was where I erred.
as I said in my post I find this service useless and i could self vote myself if i wanted .02 cents worth of encouragement lol. i still dont see how my one share earned more than my 3 shares. even if steem value goes down i don't see the upvote dropping from .06 to .02. not when my own upvote only decreased from .04 to .03 when the price dropped.
thanks to you though ive racked up on some self upvotes in these comments :)