you cannot make up the loss in curation rewards. I've already shown that.

you're missing the point.

investors invest in an idea based on risk and potential.

I see your new prototype. You ask me for $5000. I say - that's a good deal! I'll agree to $5000 for a 10% stake in the business.

2 years down the line - i don't like the deal anymore. You're not making money fast enough. Sorry - I want a 25% stake in the business so I can start making my money faster.

It doesn't work that way.

And here - its different. We give investors the opportunity to make accounts and take from the platform.

They can essentially write posts and upvote them at 100% and continue to pull money from the platform and into their own accounts.

Do you know what kind of deterrent is in place for this?

We can all downvote their posts. LOLOLOLOL THAT is the solution. or... we can just hope reeeeeal hard that they stop!

cuz people are good deep down inside, right?

I do not need to be paid for my content either. I would prefer highly - if the pay that i have begun accustomed to - was not taken from me and given to orca/whale accounts.

this. does not. solve. any problem.

it encourages MORE investors to come and TAKE MORE from the system.

Why do people think that when we set up a situation to abuse the system - that "nice happy investors with good intentions" are coming in droves to support this system. They're going to come expecting what their friends told them was here. a way to make money quick.

That is another mathematical reality that you're failing to see. People who abuse the system by continuing to take from it because they aren't earning enough, will ruin the system.

that goes for whales - all the way down to plankton.

When you create a desperate situation, people act selfishly.

and that's why I don't want to be a part of it, in this form. Because things (i predict) are gonna get much worse. and we are already at 40 cents/ steem. Can't go down much further without breaking.