The problem arises when you vote for something because it pays off for you. For example, you vote for your posts or you vote for each other with a colleague to maximize your profits.
This is harmful to the platform. It promotes behaviour that destroys the network.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with voting for yourself or your own posts, the only problem is when you vote for yourself exclusively, and even that does not promote others to do the same, by a long shot, and it's obvious that doing so is not the way to maximizing your profits.
They're part of everyone. The resources that you give to people by upvote do not exist.
So they aren't mine but they are everyone's, but they're not mine, even though obviously I'm also just as much everyone as everyone else. Logic.
However, they have one fundamental point. They lower the value of all other tokens. Logical.
They don't, and your logic is simplistic, flawed and unrealistic, as the white paper points out regarding inflation (of the dollar) not correlating with increased supply, age old myth debunked by facts (read the white paper) that inflation is simply (fundamental) increasing the circulation of money.
These tokens (what you are giving away) do not exist. They do not exist until payout, in principle. But let's assume a different situation, they do exist, but they belong to all the people at once.
We don't have to assume anything. It's a well established function that Stakeholders have rights over the profit if their investment.
It's also a problem, if you don't use tokens (don't give them away), someone else will. They don't disappear.
The problem is, you can't say - it's my money. Because they never were.
It does not matter who rewards them, obviously only those with stake can do so and when they do so it's because of virtue of how stakeholders earn revenue on their stake, not only on steem, but all over the world and in just about every single business that has stakeholders.
You give it away as you please. You can give it to the worst post - e.g. child pornography, because you don't lose anything.
It's established that something is indeed lost, so nice try lying again, like you lied that people got their stake for free.
However, if you give a grant, you lose money. You choose only the best entries.
And those can be child loving adults "foundations".
The hilarious thing is that you first lied, said that donation is no different than steem, now you're saying that it's fundamentally different and it only gets more hilarious because the white paper discusses why donation and tipping platforms are such poor performers, which is why steem is different all together.