let's say that ideally a healthy economy should have equality of opportunity, but never and I do mean never, equality of outcome.
Who are you trying to bullshit. "equality of opportunity"?...is that what you mean when they delegated them two million dollars? Is that what you mean when they delegate people huge sums because they have some sort of name recognition on on FB, UTube? You should seriously look at some of those accounts...they really haven't brought in more people nor do they interact with the people or up vote people who comment on their stuff. Then to add insult to injury they can afford to buy votes to make hundreds while others struggle with some 1/8 of 1/10 of a penny bullshit while everyone else is off agreeing with everything a whale says hoping for a dime. If it's true that after the hard folk that people who don't have 120 to 140 sp their votes will be totally meaningless well I just don't know how you expect to get more people onto the platform. My guess is that most people by now have heard of steemit, the words out, I just don't see how the platform can grow or survive, there's huge calls for people to form into communities to support each other...that's a death call, they know what's happening, they aren't blind, your just can't ignore the statement those guys made before exiting:![tweet.JPG]
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Not to take away from your other points, but are you implying that you and I don't have the equal opportunity to craft a dapp and get a multimillion Steem delegation?
I confess I am not chasing such. I am aware of folks that are working to develop apps, and I am sure they are doing so with the intention of gaining emoluments, delegated or otherwise. I haven't seen any effort towards that end from you either, and I don't see that as not having an opportunity.
I see that as having other interests, and acting accordingly.
No I wasn't talking about people who are skilled who can do things to make the platform actually develop, but I do feel that people like Adam Kokesh, Dan Dicks and others who have been given delegation just because they have been successful on other platforms shouldn't have a advantage over others. They haven't brought their monies worth back into the platform in the way of new followers, most who comment on their stuff are regulars here that had no affiliation with them prior to them coming here and they don't spend time interacting with people here they take the money and run, especially Dan. If people are well know out there they shouldn't need any further additional advantage.
Skill is learned. Every skill, including how to grow your audience, is a learned thing. While you and I agree on the wisdom of delegating to Kokesh, for example (I think we agree that he isn't entirely forthright in his rhetoric, and that delegation would be better placed elsewhere), our skills depend on us to learn.
Stinc delegates based on their skillsets, and I don't see that some barrier exists that deprives either of us from learning how to benefit from delegations.
Any such barrier I can see is self-imposed by ourselves. I simply note that I am not sufficiently driven to surmount such barriers, as I have other interests.
That's on me.