RE: Will Steem succeed or commit suicide?
It's my earnings. I can use them in whatever fashion I want to. As for the delegated SP, I purchased that with the earnings I gathered from all the posts I've made previous to now, and I purchased it to expand my ability to curate. So you can shove your self-righteousness. You know how I earned enough SP to power down into Steem so I could purchase wider curating power in the first place? Good original content and building relationships with people.
I earned where I'm at and what I'm doing. I've put forth a year's worth of effort to build my position. I'm all for charity; I've delegated to curation bots I believe in run by people I know and trust. I have sat on the introduceyourself tag and greeted hundreds of new Steemians and answered tons of questions on Steemit.chat and Discord to help new users out. What I will never support is the notion that this should be automatic or a feature. No one deserves something just for showing up.
Of course you can do whatever you want with your steem, that doesn't mean the system is fair.
How stupid do you think people are? You powered down your SP into steem in order to use that steem to purchase 10x more SP? Sure mate, that happened.
I'm not being self-righteous, I merely pointing out the recorded facts.
As your transaction history shows, you've clearly bought your position. I'm not saying that you haven't made good posts or been helpful, I'm merely stating a recorded and undeniable fact. You can try to deny it as much as you want but it's right there in your transaction history.
Likewise, no one deserves anything just for being wealthy enough to be able to buy themselves a nice position.
If you looked at my transaction history, you'd see me powering down the SP I've earned over the course of a year in order to do this. Why don't you look again?
Also, what were those transfers in your transaction history from blocktrades?
Why would I need to look over it again? You just said that you powered down your SP in order to purchase SP? On what planet does that make any sense? It ain't fucking this one that's for sure.
I powered down SP into Steem. I leased 10k SP from minnowbooster for 400 Steem. Need me to write it in crayon or are you gonna keep making assumptions?
I'm glad I could finally get you to admit that you bought your position rather than earning it.
You mean like you did? You didn't. Nice try, though, Turbo-Lenin.
Yes, exactly like I did. My argument is not about you buying steem, it's about you claiming that you earned it all when you clearly rented it. What part of that do you not understand?
The part where I didn't earn the Steem I used to rent SP. Which is exactly the point you made. I didn't purchase Steem to lease SP. What part of that do you not understand? Want me to draw it in crayon for you?
Oh wait, I know exactly what those transfers are. You trying to buy your position.
https://steemit.com/steem/@steempower/how-to-use-blocktrades
Yes, that's me trying to buy my way higher up the ladder. Unlike you, I'm not going to deny that fact and I'm not going to try to convince people that I earned that SP when I so very clearly bought it and din't earn it in any way, shape or form. I didn't even earn the money I used to buy that SP, I made it from mining altcoins with my GPU.
Good for you. I earned mine. So by your own metric, I have way more of a leg to stand on.
Sure mate, you earned it by paying 400 steem for 10K SP.
Yeah. I earned the 400 Steem, which I turned into a greater investment. Get the fuck outta here with your commie bullshit.
You may have earned that 400 steem, you definitely didn't earn that 10K SP which you bought though. If that's commie bullshit, then the US government are commies:
No, let's look at what the say unearned income is.
The US government is strongly socialist, which is the step immediately preceding full-blown communism. So yeah, they are. Don't really give a shit what a bunch of government agents try to define things as in the tax code, so you appealing to it is irrelevant. Has no value. Next slide, chief.
This is exactly the issue I've pointed out in my recent post.
It'd be great if you could join that discussion as well to help highlight this problem further.