Crap you are defensive, sorry if I have offended. You are in my thoughts for less than 2 paragraphs so I'm not totally beating down on you. Yes, I'm disappointed about the fight for steem but as I suggested looking at crap posts all day isn't worth it, mentally and financially anyway.
You should absolutely be making money for the effort you put in and I never suggested that. In fact you should totally use bots to get you to a decent level when dtube doesn't come to the party.
I'm just going to let the whales do their thing and I'll do mine, which will involve using bots and writing stuff.
Hopefully better than the other stuff people write but certainly not my best stuff.
Sometimes to level the playing field you need to raise yourself up, when the competitors aren't prepared to come back down.
Hey @mrpuzzle, sorry to read that you are angry and disillusioned, perhaps even dejected with some of the behaviour you have encountered. I actually agree that it might be time for a shift in focus of activity and raison d'etre on here - we just can't control what anyone else does! Perhaps the softer version of lifting awareness through example-setting will gradually alter behaviour here as an abundance mindset filters in and people panic less about possible earnings!? And for me, if there is indeed abundance (for me, yes, absolutely 🌟 ), then the scarcity mindset is redundant - ie the scurrying about trying to accumulate - sure can be done and the numbers augment, but creative energy is spent on something that will happen anyway - perhaps slower, but so what, where there is abundance, what's the need to compare stashes, or even to actively go about collecting? These activities become kinda unnecessary IMO, although each to their own and I don't call out anything as right or wrong, good or bad!
And on the point of creative energies, when I read your intro post, I got a really strong sense that you had an excitingly investigative approach which could be applied to absolutely anything - certainly to a far greater variety of (steemit) life than hunting in areas that manifest lower energies. Spending time there is bound to lower your own energies and bring to the surface latent anger etc, no? Just saying supportive things Mr.P., and I mean them. Respect to you 🕉
Hope your spirits lift and I look forward to any future creative-mensa-self-expression!
Namaste.