What's the Point of Minnows Anyway???

Do minnows ACTUALLY add a net positive value to the blockchain?

And by "value" I mean "fiscal value" so we're clear. Sure, we add social ecology and hugs and kisses all around, some low key entertainment on a good day. Just like any other app. Oh, but we invent DAPPS, we build games, we have offshoot Discord servers. All of these generate money and happiness and bliss--much of which gets reinvested BACK into the blockchain.

Bullshit. Most of it goes in pockets.

Do we, the proof-of-brain, penny pinching minnows actually provide a net positive fiscal contribution to the economy of the HIVE BLOCKCHAIN? I doubt we do. In fact, as an investor-driven economy, I am rather convinced we do the opposite.

So why are we here?

Why keep us around? Why reward minnows at all if we deplete the rewards pool, complain like entitled little bitches about votes, and downvote the only people who actually have a right to vote at all, if we're being honest? I have two guesses:

1. Witnesses are torn on whether we should be an investor-economy or an attention-economy.
2. We're attempting to become both

Only way to become BOTH an investor-based and an attention-based economy is to grow and nurture a loyal userbase so we can take the platform to larger investors who will do paid advertising once we're big enough to create a probable return on their investment.

That's it. All the other stuff is fluff. It's fun fluff, it makes money for some people, some of that money comes back to Hive. But the rest of it is fluff.

In the meantime, I'm happy being the guinea-minnow that I am. Maybe someday I'll invest like a real boy. Also, maybe someday I'll have the money to invest like a real boy.