I am on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and they haven't paid me SHIT. Instead, they take advantage of my content, sell me and my thoughts off to advertisers and I get nothing in return. I'm still there though.... I agree with alot of what you said and the money is definitely the motivator, but this whole decentralized content phenomenon is amazing. Of course people are just going to farm it, but in the end I think this is the beginning of something special.
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Well said, at the end strong will survive. If you do not plan for steemit, steemit will plan for you and then you will leave. A lot of people write nothing and then earning reward. Clearly this is part of being decentralized. This is the rule all along.
Keep on steemin'
@jeffjagoe So you're still for sale; if you're not selling your information to those advertisers, you're whoring yourself on Steemit. It's no different.
But I am getting cryptos in return over here... if I wasn't whoring myself here, I'd have to whore myself to the corporate nutjobs on LinkedIn :)
No matter where you goin a public space/website, you are going to get used. You think the internet is free? Rofl.
Get off the hurrhurr and do something about it. The glass is half full also. Be thankful you have more free speech than the other places, that you are getting some monetary reward (or are you one of those “money is the root of all evil” guys), and start saying what you really want. People are responding to you and actually talking to you.