Here is an example - when i owned my own bike shop i had skin in the game - if i felt like crap but there was work to be done, i did it. An employee has no skin in the game and is not going to trash their own health like that.
And when I'm watching a crypto, the attention I pay to it is dependent on how much skin i have in that game. On Hive, I'm very interested. On Gab I barely give a toss.
You're confusing things. (you're rationalizing .lol)
'Skin in the game' - in respects to being the motivating ingredient to action,(running a business) is not the really comparable to 'skin in the game', relative to how you see things in 'conceptual models' - financial instruments, etc.
'Skin in the game' isn't a criticism - it's an understanding of how emotions change perceptions, and how decision making can be affected by that change of emotion..
If you had say 1/4 million HP, you might feel like you were walking on egg shells calling out the bullshit and end up behaving differently to how you did paying out on fuckers back on Steemit when you only had 5000SP.
Once you see that autovoting popular shitposts is a license to print money you see why it's being done, and lose the edge to do anything about it. And end up in a dilemma of wanting to see good content encouraged but understanding why it's not.
So I'm told...