"This is even better than upvoting yourself!"

This seems a telling copy-paste from the section 'How can I get bigger upvotes on my posts?' from the bullet point that talks about upvoting Hive account@steembasicincome on their FAQ. I think I may have seen the account around before, but it appeared on my feed recently and so I took a bit of time to check it out. I don't really like what I've seen so far.

While perhaps not particularly jerky, it does seem a little circular to me

Steem Basic Income describes itself as "...a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible." yet it must not mean 'experiment' as in 'scientific experiment' since I see no mention of experimental methods or hypotheses and nary a thing it's trying to figure out. It goes on to say that "Members join by sponsoring others into the program." If the first thing that pops up on DuckDuckGo is anything to go by, that seems to fall in line with a pyramid scheme. The FAQ goes on to say that they pay the titular basic income by promising future upvotes. With hopefully oversimplified reasoning using the bullet point I mentioned that seems quite close (identical?) to upvote for upvote. I'm not a fan of that sort of thing (resteem for resteem, follow for follow, referral programs etc.) to say the least. Doesn't seem to add much IMHO.

I am not saying it is certainly a pyramid scheme or anything

I just want to know if it's not. Seems like something I'd be interested in, judging solely from the name.

I am a Steemian after all.

Thanks for reading!