If you were a lawyer, would you accept to be paid with compliments such as "oh man, I love the way you know the law and how you save people's ass on the court, keep doing great!"?.

Maybe if you were a doctor? "Dude, you are great saving lives, keep practicing!

Mm... I am sure that maybe a builder would, right? "It is nuts how you built that wall man, the way you put the furniture over there is just Mamma Mia! I wish I could do so well!"

The answer for all of that is clearly no... so why should an artist be different?

I've been watching a lot of people lately that just comments and says things like "MAN! Your work is absolutely crazy! Keep doing!", "Oh I admire you work and I enjoy so much your posts! Thank you so much" or my favorite "This post is so good! This definitively deserves an upvote!!"

Yet all these people have something in common: They didn't upvote anything, they were just seeking for upvotes to them.

See, you don't need to be a whale to upvote. You don't even have to give 20% of your vote... it can be just symbolic you know? 1% of your vote can be recovered in less than five minutes.

See, I got bills to pay, food to eat and things to do. I don't do these with compliments. I don't go to the grocery and say "hey! Thank you so much for the milk and the chicken breast, you are awesome! Keep doing this great, bye!".

That would be stealing.

Well, it feels the same way here.

So please, not only with me. If you liked what you read on the post, not on this one but on every other, upvote it. That's how you show your gratitude for it or how you support.

And just in case you didn't know... You don't lose anything by upvoting. Giving your upvote doesn't make you lose money or anything. This is the whole joke of Steemit. So here you can be greedy-free and that will only make you have more in the future.

Still, since this hurts me a little bit I will stop upvoting comments because I don't want to collaborate to do this kind of spam stuff without the proper gratification.

See ya!

Bye!