I came to both help others and make money (its a gamble, but perhaps it can happen). I look at the entire crypto bubble that is taking place, and wonder how people can think it could ever be decentralized when its value is judged based upon the fiat created by those who we are supposed to be escaping. Until such a time that we can buy everything using crypto, it will be subject to the one path it has to the real world that is not this false internet society. The one path owned by the bankers. But i suspect it was created to be a stronger control of the farm, as transactions can happen in the dark of night with fiat, not so with crypto. The moment they tie one to a wallet, every transaction ever taken place there is known. They have expended much energy into this tying of wallets to people. As well as I suspect that they are able to track every move a person makes on their computer, probably tracking built directly into any hardware you can buy.

I take comfort in the fact that I have been able to help others here financially through votes and Steem donations out of my earnings. Steem that was sometimes cashed out so they could buy food or pay their electric bill for themselves and their kids. In this sense, if Steem was to collapse tomorrow, I would not feel I lost the little money I put in as it went to others who used it that needed it more than I did.

The bidbots are a foolish endeavor for the buyers. It is like buying lottery tickets. They may occassionally make a small profit from using them, but most of the time it will be a loss and pure gain for the monied hands that act no different than the bankers/corporations who use their assets of power to dip their hands into the pockets of those with less. But fools insist on being parted from their money.