The video above, in my opinion, does a great job highlighting how Hive only furthered the sickening of individualism and dividing of communities through social media by intermingling it with a inflationary financial system that mirrors the real life debt based system that compromises peoples morals in a way to mold and craft the group into a bland group of virtue signaling pacifists that are lead by power hungry annalists as some kind of sick game of control, wealth preservation and dominance.
All of this can be avoided if we just turned Hive into a wallet only and encouraged community development on the second layer so as to allow for better utilization of Hive in that regards and allow for more development into blockchain gaming, cross chain utilization for assets and smart contracts and better exchange listings than just a Korean exchange and non USA approved binnace.
Just my opinion but no one in the blockchain space is excited about social media aside from tipping BTC on twitter and Facebook coins.
Hive has a real opportunity to capitalize on NFTS, smart contracts and blockchain gaming but is being overshadowed by weird first layer social media that sends a confusing message of the whales being pro authoritarians and centralized governments while advertising the chain as decentralized. The plutocracy and walled gardened nature of Hive is holding it back currently.
Let's wall off Hive and make it a wallet only and stop this weird cluttered wallet full of unneeded content. Let communities form already in a organic fashion on the second layer.
Its been a while since I said hi but yeah I had to say something as it is getting as stupid and tiresome as Facebook.
That's a great video, yes, thanks for sharing. I get where you are coming from regarding the rewards pools, but at the same time I actually enjoy the mechanism as it is one of the only ways people can be directly financially rewarded for their creative thinking and problem solving attempts without needing to go through a lengthy process or contracting with an entity.
I see hive as a microcosm of the macrocosmic world and an excellent place to evolve our own thinking and use of social psychology - as it provides a framework for people to interact within and where common problems arise between people in a way that is both publicly observed and to some extent measurable. If people have intent to heal and balance then this can be a very good thing.. However, it does require people to have the time and security needed to focus in this way and many people are struggling too much financially to do this at present.
Ultimately, our collective problems require us to heal, balance and evolve so no technology can solve our problems. However, a social networking space that can empower people to engage financially does open up space to achieve something unusual if it is channelled in a healthy direction.
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's possible to create a layer 2 community on Hive that has no reward pool and is as you are suggesting - maybe a worker proposal can fund it as an experiment.