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He supplies all the new users with steempower, he has to be collecting, there is no way he would not only be running this site for free, AND paying out of his pocket for new accounts. That just isn't good business.

You are quite new.
Just read around a bit.
Steemit is a company.
Read about @ned and @dan.
Just follow some Top 20 witnesses.
@aggroed is a good start.
@timcliff also.
Because your concepts of steem, steemit et al. seem a bit off. And there is not enough space here to explain everything in this little comment box ;)

well said.. theres always facebook that @infamusfiend can go back to...

Didn't want anybody to leave.. It's just.. Off all the things that are wrong with steemit, he picked the one, that is actually something good.
Delegating SP to new users.
sigh:)

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