RE: Why I Respect the DAO Hacker But Not The DollarVigilante
How is the DollarVigilante better than any politician when he posts nonsense posts on Steemit in order to gain money and fame?
Let's assume he posts nonsense. Is it really his fault he gets upvoted?
How is Hilary Clinton, Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump any different from him when they all openly say lies and admitely make money on the backs of sheeple that follow them?
Does @dollarvigilante lie? If so - prove it. Otherwise it's you who spreads misinformation, not him.
How can one accuse the "establishment" and the "status-quo" of society when themselves act very much like the establishment?
Please define what you mean by "acting like the establishment". I think you are confusing being popular with abusing power. As far as I know, @dollarvigilante has not abused any power, at least not here on Steem.
In network theory, for many networks including Steemit, if you are a node with lots of links, then it's easier to gain more links. As a new network, ideally people should all join with equal footing and get discovered through the efforts they put into this network. However, you have people who take their previous network to Steemit and immediately have a huge advantage.
This is actually fine to a degree. You should be rewarded for bringing new people to the network. However, as it is, the reward for that is highly disproportionate. It greatly amplifies income inequality. If you're famous and you bring over a few hundred new users and gain a few hundred dollars for that, it's perfectly reasonable, but when you're earning $10,000 while the other new users are earning $0.01, the systematic income inequality is too great.
Now I'm not for communism or perfect equality of payouts at all, but I think the scaling needs to be toned down. There is no post that is literally worth 1,000,000 times as much as another post. Like if the best post pay out 100 times as much a typical post that gets unnoticed, that's much more reasonable. We can still have a free market; just change the scaling of the payouts, and give people without a previous networks more of a chance to get noticed.
I agree with that.
Indeed, this community has a tendency to overpay the initial posts by famous people. I'd prefer to see them produce good content first.
I'm not blaming the developers for the systematic problems either. The whole thing is a huge social experiment and nobody could have known the results ahead of time. This is why we try to continue to critique and refine the systems and incentives one step at a time to improve it across a plethora of metrics.
The content of the DollarVigilante is one of the poorest i have ever seen. Same goes about his ideas about freedom. he is just shilling himself with recycled ideas ..sprinkled up with lots of propaganda.
In general i agree with all his initial ancap principles but the way he executes them is slimy.
I've not looked at enough of his content to make a conclusion. Have you seen this yet? https://steemit.com/steem/@dantheman/people-rank-using-page-rank-algorithm-for-better-curation-and-rewards
It seems like we will be able to build crowdbased solutions to take care of this kind of issues in the future.
Ofcourse he does. Just check half his posts about making lies. Go to his facebook page and see how petty his popaganda is. Politicians make money by manipulating public perception?
he does he exact same thing.
And innocent people are falling for his propaganda. But fortunately you are smart and see all the deception. Right.
@dollarvigilante is a marketing guy. He sells ideas. And these ideas might be useless but they don't hurt anyone, nobody is doing any harm to anyone due to those ideas.
So why are you so upset about him? Even if he "manipulates public perception", why does it affect you? You are not the victim of this "manipulation", so what's the problem?
Are you on a mission to protect others? Those who enjoy @dollarvigilante 's "manipulations" are fine, they do not need to be protected.
Like I said before you cannot make a carreer by exposing people who deceive...and then cash ou by deceiving people yourself.
it is the lowest a human can crawl
Ahhhh... OK , Your true colors are starting to show..... Let's see if you'll honestly answer 2 questions.... What's your preferred political philosophy? and, if you are foolish enough to vote, who is your preferred candidate ? ....... Either of these questions, honestly answered, could have saved everyone a lot of time reading your veiled double-speak ..... Slandering others does not validate your "beliefs" ......
Just from your nickname I can tell you are still ancap fresh.
I am not only ancap and never voted. I run the largest freethinking tank central to the ideas of freethought, atheism and anarchocapitalism in my country.
I can smell phonies from a mile away
What ever happened to the golden rule ? What ever happened to do as you like as long as it doesn't damage others ? ..... Or, to be crass about it, who died and left you in charge ? ......... You went on and on and on writing without making a direct point, indicating to me that you didn't "like" the fact that anyone could bring his success with him to SteemIT and take some of the wind out of your sails after you worked so hard, (and I'm sure you have, even though I don't know You).....
My suggestion would be to see what you can learn from other peoples success, rather than saying everything other than "THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW !!!", or generally expressing distaste about someone's actions who has done nothing but good, and that you evidently don't know .......
And, there is absolutely nothing "fresh or "phony" about me, I've been studying a huge variety of subjects for over 40 years, probably before you were born, and I have a 153 I.Q.......
BTW, good for you on running your think-tank, but you make me wonder about what kind of fixed ideas you may be pushing after reading your comments here, or maybe I'm wrong, it could be you don't like anyone challenging your position, what ever that may be ......
There are many other more constructive things that we could be talking about .........
I don't agree with kyriacos on everything and some of his approaches are not so tactful, but I can tell that he has thought about these issues way deeper than you, I, or the dollar vigilante. He has a very valuable perspective.
At the same time, I conclude that overall dollarvigilante is still doing a net positive service by spreading the ideas in simple terms. He provides great, relatable content to novices willing to be open minded, but look else where if you want to seek a deeper understanding. The same applies to Molyneux or any other pop anarchists.