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RE: Sad, but not yet defeated.

in #hardfork5 years ago

So our government (top20) is dependent upon the votes of whales to stay in government.

Pretty much the case, no matter how we present it!

The next time I read a post from an "anti-establishment" cheerleader somewhere on our Steem blockchain, I will remember the facts and figures I put out there the other day about dead voters, voters on dead witnesses and what some others have mentioned from time to time 'those that just don't vote'.

Responsibilities exist at all levels for everything in a voting system that depends on the people.

I don't see the need to "give up" or "withdraw", what I do see is the need to take a breath and clear ones mind and start thinking along the lines of:

"OK, this is reality, what do we do to change it?"

Yesterday is in the past, it is what I do today that matters.

& cheers for taking action on what you believe in, Steem has a future!

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Thank you for the DM before I read this... LOL

Today IS what matters - and that's why I wrote this post INSTEAD of just walking away.

by the way - have you noticed my witness votes? lol I updated them - BECAUSE of your post.

Imagine! People reading and growing from valuable posts... huh! what a novel idea!!! LOL

I hope Steem does have a very long and bright future. I'm glad that there are people who feel that they need to stay to make that happen.

I think I would stay too - if my voice mattered. After HF20 and the destruction of everything we had built in Welcome Wagon (over a year!!) with ONE swift move... I stayed. I fought. I worked hard.

HF21 is an indication that we haven't learned, and that we don't care to learn. We just want everything now at the expense of so many people. I can't stand beside that.

If you can - I hope you can fight until the bitter end, Sir Jack.

No matter what - I love you dearly and can't wait to see you next year. hehehehe

Ooo, he made a witness moving around post? I'll go check it out!

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2nd comment from me, Sir Jack LOL

"OK, this is reality, what do we do to change it?"

it is NOT REALITY that we have a 50/50 rewards system in place. The reality is WE HAVE A 75/25.

Do you see how they have everyone believing this is reality when in fact.... it is NOT. yet.

My post is about KEEPING that the reality of 75/25 - or COMING UP with a better solution than "Take from the poor, give to the rich, and hope that somehow in the end - everyone is good and kind to one another and we chase all the bad guys away."

And - I think it's fair f me to say that you WOULD give up or withdraw if there was a decision to make author rewards 0.... right?

So, if that's the case - it IS a matter of give up or withdraw at a CERTAIN POINT. and That point is different for everyone.

For me? It's 50/50

But I MIGHT agree with 70/30...

or even the 50/25/25 that I mentioned where 33% is taken from the authors and given DIRECTLY to the community to support the SPS

Right now - with the changes that we are being suggested in the FULL hard fork - author rewards are NOT going down only 33%. They are going down 33% in the rewards system. They are going down an ADDITIONAL AMOUNT bringing us to a 44% LOSS OF AUTHOR REWARDS

44% loss for authors.

Can you imagine any other system that could withstand that without a mass exodus?

Perhaps that's what they are TRYING to do?

Instead of firing the employee, the boss is turning up the heat and making working conditions so bad - that the employee just leaves of his own free will.

hm.

damn it, I was going to chill out and enjoy some tunes, then you had to get me all hyped up again.

I agree with you fully on everything, even I was talking about the reality of how our governance works and what our responsibilities as voters are.

& all I want to agree with is 0 steem payouts.

and here is a part of a comment from a few minutes ago on the topic:

"as for EIP, I can't grasp the fact that our priorities have shifted back to something that was done in 2017 with HF19, instead of putting all efforts into SMTs, especially after HF20 set the path for SMTs and an almost infinite economy for our Steem ecosystem.

So, to me, I am literally lost for words when it comes to what all is going on.

We seem to have strayed off the path that were on, our vision has been blurred by things that would be totally obsolete once the SMTs are necessary for any front end to operate.

So yeah, don't ask me mate, I'm just as confused, if not even more than most of us out there in this deep blue!

Cheers."

I don't get WTF HAPPENED!

Did we really get sidetracked that bad in all this that we literally got lost to the point of no return!

not gonna drag you back in.... go enjoy your tunes! hehehehe