"rewards weren't yours until pay out" it is akin to working a job for a week and at the end your employer removing your wage stating that it wasn't yours because you haven't received it yet
I think this is a false analogy.
The deal with an employer is that you get paid your wage in return for completing some work.
The deal on Hive is that a post receives a payout proportional to the value assigned to that post by the community. The community has 7 days to reach consensus on post value. The value of a post is only resolved at time of payout.
An upvote on hive does not immediately entitle you to the projected payout that vote carries.
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