This is a fairly awesome story, and it gives me much hope for the future of STEEM and the direction we are all heading. Human interaction is a fairly complex thing, and especially so on the internet. Toss in the blockchain with very real rewards, and the behavior can be disappointing at times.

I am still firmly convinced, and your post shows clear evidence that I'm not alone in this, that there is a significant and important collection of people who are working to build a system which thrives and grows and fulfills much of the promise of humanity. We can, and we must, work together to build a world that is better than the one we were given.

The alternative is chaos and destruction and hate. There's already too much of that in this world. Glad to see so many people fighting the good fight.

Some might call this altruism, or selfless giving, or even just foolishly being taken advantage of. I don't see it that way. To me, this looks like enlightened self-interest. The more we view systems as zero-sum games, the more likely we are to be selfish and greedy. The more we look for win/win scenarios where everyone who contributes benefits greatly, and the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, the more likely we are to be magnanimous and to share freely with each other.

There is a lot of fighting over who is getting a bigger piece of the pie on STEEM. I find this conflict to be trivial and a huge waste of time. Make the pie bigger. That's worth spending time on.