$50 rewards for 5 words and $1 reward for a 2000 word essay.

If you don't think it's fair you obviously can invest into the system and curate such things respectively. After all that is what you hold stake over: to curate/rate/review/express your opinion on how worthy or unworthy any item is.

You imply that downvoting is even less ethical than voting five words for fifty dollars worth of steem. Do you think that it's unethical to choose how to spend one's voting power, even when you claim to not be for or against people voting one way or another, and if you aren't for people voting one way or another, then why express this:

We also have a pool of people wishing to take as much profit as possible from that pool, for themselves.

Yes indeed, you want your post to be worth more than 3 times the highest paid post:

(let's see if I now get $100 worth of upvotes...Because this is worth $1000 - It might be the savior of steem....)

You essentially are the very same people you point to.. Why point to them again, especially if you don't care how they use the stake? Why indicate how they use their stake? Why whine about someone making more from five words than you do from 200,000 words?

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