at the time I was shown unreasonable disrespect
So now you want to play the victim card? Look at your long essay response to me.
How can you possibly think that is not decentralization?
I understand that many people on Steem do not understand basic economics, so I'll speak in simple words...
ridiculous how much people whine about this.
it was able to land in your lap and ruffle your feathers. But hey, its okay, because I just give out nuggets of gold in wisdom all over the place. You're welcome. ;)
Arrogant, cocky, disrespectful. You seem to think that because I disagree, it's because I don't understand what you're trying to say, so you go on repeating it, as if I wasn't able to grasp your views the first time.
If saying "Sorry. I don't feel like reading that," hurts your feelings, when it was a clearly a polite response to show you I wasn't interested in talking in circles and debating when I have better things I need to be doing with my time, I don't know what to say.
You came at me like I'm some kind of inferior intellect who doesn't read much, all while claiming you're incredibly smart. Who does that? Annoying people.
The fact is, I've heard everything you've said a million times. You're parroting. I don't need to read all that stuff again and have the same discussions with people I've had in the past. You're not able to see how, by definition, placing the power of 10000 people into one is literally centralizing the power of 10000; centralization. 10000 people, now gone, and replaced with one paid vote, means there are 10000 people who are unavailable to view and vote for what was promoted, meaning the target audience is gone and the promotion was a waste of time since there's no money to be made. You're defending a system that doesn't work. I know what real promotion is, and you're speaking to me as if I was born yesterday. So of course I don't want to waste time speaking to you.
It's also worth adding, we have many months, if not years of evidence now that prove the business model and sales pitch you're parroting from many months if not years ago simply does not work. If 10000 people place their money in the hands of one, that one point becomes a central point of failure, since the one at the top earns the most, they create the most selling pressure. Even the charts show a steady decline in value, as more and more bidbots, delegating, and centralization of power took place. Active members, steady decline because their market was on a steady decline. People were being paid to look away, in an attention economy. That's doing it backwards and the arts and entertainment business model where consumers pay to look proves it's being done backwards. It's common sense to anyone who knows the business.
Your initial response was also full of errors and misinformation.
I provided an argument, in no gentlemanly way did you respond. You spoke aggressively, and insultingly and you dare to say that I "play the victim"? No, I am no victim, I am a victor.
Nothing you ever said in reply to me was an argument on the basis of logical economic theory or anything of the sort. You are an intelligent and capable person in your own way, but in no way are you an economist. You do not understand the ideas you suggest.
Even though you wish to insult me, and you did bring that part out of me, I will try to maintain a cooler head. You're misguided, but you are sincere.
Remember that you commented on my statements, not the other way around. And when I replied you chose to act in a very despicable way. You pretend that your comment "sorry, I am not going to read that" is in some way not entirely an intentionally disrespectful method of jabbing me. Only the completely idiotic will believe you.
If you had any intelligible argument you would have made it in response to my reply to you. You did not, because you do not.
I'm two sentences in and I've already decided I'm not going to read your bullshit. Deal with it.
See, more evidence. I make an argument for a particular outlook, not even directed at you, and you go ranting on my comment trying to get at me emotionally and then claim you refuse to read my responses.
Its not my problem that you can't understand basic economics. And just so you know, it is fine if you do not read what I have to say, because other people might stumble upon it and they can see my arguments and how you have responded.
Yes. They can see how I've decided to NOT respond to your constant barrage of passive aggressive and disrespectful ramblings.
I don't live in a world where I need to be concerned about what some random person thinks of me because I don't feel like listening or talking to you.
There's no winners and losers in a conversation.
That screenshot shows how you like to act before you decide you need to be concerned about your image. People can go ahead and see all of your passive aggressive stabs and direct insults. And deleting it doesn't make it go away.
I've already pointed out how there's two years of evidence proving your "basic economics" doesn't work. If your "basic economics" was such a great idea, where's your money?
As I said, you're parroting a sales pitch.
What you don't realize is the moment that bidbot as promotion idea becomes as successful as it possibly can is also the exact moment the business models collapses and becomes useless.
It can't scale. There are only 20-50 valuable slots to purchase. If thousands of people were vying for those positions, each one would only be able to purchase a few seconds of promotional time to be in the spot light. If everyone purchased votes, whatever the going rate to reach a certain rung of the ladder was, let's say $50. If everyone purchased $50, that $50 becomes the new zero or starting point and the only ones making money are those selling votes. If the content producers can't make money, there's no content. Without content there's no one to sell votes to, with the exception of a few amatuers without talent, but those people don't bring eyes to the platform, meaning the value declines and the public loses interest. If you're showing off a platform that pays, but $50 is the breaking even point, the market will reflect the value of $50 as $0. If only a small group of vote sellers are making money, that puts tremendous selling pressure on the token. Proof is all around you.
Since you think there's a mass of people reading this, if any of you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Blake. I'm done speaking to you. If the last word is what you require to feel like a "winner" in your imaginary debate held in front of thousands of people, go ahead. If you send me another hissy fit though and then decide to delete, like you've been doing here the entire time, to make your fake image look better than your reality, I'll be more than happy to show the folks the kind of games you're playing in this conversation.