Nobody owns the reward pool. Picture a glacier. That's inflation. Picture that glacier melting. See that pool of water? That's the reward pool. Picture a bucket. That's your HP. When you vote, you're dipping your bucket into that pool of water, and dumping it on someone else. Now you've watered them, so they can grow, and you've also given yourself a drink, which gives you the strength to carry more water.

Confused?

The glacier will continue to melt. Nobody owns that glacier. It's just part of the environment.

The size of your bucket depends on how much HP you hold. Some are walking around with thimbles, while others are driving water trucks.

A post or comment is just a temporary man-made water reservoir and doesn't drain into any personal holding tanks (wallets) until after a week. Half of the water is plumbed directly to the source or builder of the reservoir. The rest flows out to those carrying water.

Some will say attracting more able bodies to build temporary man-made reservoirs somehow brings more water to the environment. It does not. It just creates more drains and holding tanks. All holding tanks are piped to the lake forming outside of this dome (or hive, if you want to bee cool about it).

The real reward pool exists outside of this dome. Providing a reason for people on the outside to carry water in is how you make it rain. Everyone benefits from those showers. Without them, all we're doing is growing orchards in a desert and filling our holding tanks.

People have argued about how to carry water more efficiently or effectively here for an eternity. Without precipitation, the end result will always the same, in my view, here inside this dome.

Every post is a fruit we grew. Carried all that water to create a massive surplus of well preserved fruit nobody eats. All while rarely considering opening up a fruit stand. The real reward pool exists on the outside. However, many see that beautiful lake as a problem. To me, it's the solution.

Millions of rain drops also land next to that glacier, filling the pool. Millions of people buying and eating the fruit. That solves so many problems here. They don't even need big buckets. A million people with 1000HP each, is a lot. Doubling that amount, per individual, is cheap. Rain is cheap. Of course, it's not easy to let it fall from the sky, when you're stuck inside a dome.

And I doubt those millions of people would be too concerned about how much money is in the wallets of those they bought fruit from. I doubt they'd only buy (vote for) from those with the largest holding tank. I think they'd be more concerned about the quality of the fruit. The poor quality fruit stands would put themselves out of business fairly quickly, and they can't go blame a select few with large buckets or how the system is designed, for their demise. The only thing they'd be left with is an incentive to do better.