I'm sorry if that idea contravenes what you perceive to be your best interests, but the fact remains, any rewards not voted to you by a person that read your content and wanted to support you, or it, is contrary to the purported idea of a reward pool at all.
For those of you that weren't here before Dan got fed up with the crapitalust crap that was being forced upon him, vote selling was frowned upon, not really suppressed, but there weren't many folks here then, the crapitalusts won the argument and Dan left.
Self voting wasn't a thing because the n2 made your vote worth less than if you had voted popular content. Stacking votes made the later votes worth more, curation rewards included.
The whales couldn't make any money posting, nobody was voting their content.
This is why hardfork 17 made self voting a thing.
Why delegation was allowed to give passive rewards to the whales from the reward pool intended for content creators.
You are allowed to join in the fun by selling your vote and renting your sp, but only to provide cover to the whales that already know that this makes steem a money grab. Ultimately doomed until things change.
The value of steem is in it's utility as a currency, it's content on the blockchain, and it's perceived value as an investment.
The investors are currently raping the reward pool to the tune of 100's of 1000's per week.
Yeah, crapitalism!!
What is going to happen if this continues is that regular folks are going to be turned off by not being able to earn money to use as currency in the stores that accept steem.
Why would folks create content for pennies when the insiders syphon off 95% of the rewards for the 'investors'?
Those 'investors' are here for the roi, and nothing more.
When this all comes to a head they will abandon steem for the next coin they can rape.
I can't wait for that day.
If you are an unfavored content creator just hang in there, that day is coming.
The lower the price goes the more steem per dollar value you will get.
I made most of my sp when the price was under .15usd, and I hope it goes back down.
Maybe the reward pool rapists will finally piss enough regular folks off that I won't be alone in bitching about getting punched in the face, daily.
Most of the whale support I used to get has vanished, they got tired of banging their heads into the brick wall.
Well, I am here to beat my drum, 'Keep working, stop paying', not to make money, so I don't mind, so much.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I need money to live under crapitalistic slavery just like the next guy, but my bills are low and my needs that require money are nearly non-existent.
I don't drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, drink beer, go to concerts, or have much 'fun' as defined by the populists.
I just like having internet and some Dr. Pepper.
Maybe poke a little smot when I can afford it.
So, you can expect that I won't be going away, nor will I be changing my tune.
Have a perfectly peaceful day.
Keep working, stop paying.
No war, but the class war!!