It's almost as if, people have to pump out 1k+ words of mostly drivel to project the impression of effort.

If people want to talk about 'the value they bring to the table' -- then put some numbers down. Don't be wishy washy about it. How many people viewed your content? How many people engaged? How many referrals have you had with HP retention?

We talk about value all the time, but as someone else in this thread mentioned, would people be posting if there were no rewards?

Well, what is the use of rewards of any number of HIVE if HIVE itself is worth 0?

It therefore matters a lot whether we are optimizing and encouraging people to BUY HIVE. Without that, there is ZERO reward for everybody. We are all losers.

To this end, we've even encouraged IDLE participation amounting to reward pool leeching off productive HP holders via staking HBD. To that end, we're leaking 100k+ a month for nothing more than money which is locked up for 3 days.

Flip burgers 12 hours a day? Is that not a lot of effort? But what are the results?

Farm crops by hand for 18 hours a day, but serve just enough food for your own family? What about people who learned engineering, built machinery to accomplish 10,000x the results?

As far as I'm concerned, we are an attention economy. If you get attention, you are more likely to create the downstream net positive effects which add measurable quantitative value on chain. That's what matters.

Anything else is virtue signalling, and an opportunity for washed up people who can't get attention otherwise, to behave like social justice warriors.