I think his point is that people need/want money, and to call that greed is somewhat disingenuous, especially coming from someone who does very well out of Steemit. I know you do amazing curation work for Curie as well, however I'm sure you can see how it might frustrate, to invite people to Steemit to make money, and then call it greed when they do.
I'm pretty sure you were talking about a particular set of people, for instance I have seen big accounts that pretty much only vote for themselves, and that does seem greedy.
I guess we will always get these issues where money is involved, if you took the money element away I think we'd lose about 75% of the platform, so I guess the rewards debate will rage on and on :-)
Earning money and greed are entirely different concepts. I'm sure we can easily differentiate the two. You gave pretty good examples for both above.
Either way, my statement about greed was clearly in jest, something I clarified explicitly in a later comment.
Ah, I didn't catch the later comment, it's getting harder and harder to navigate comments and replies on Steemit. I read something this morn about Chainbb being better for that. :-)
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It is, particularly on comment rich posts, like this one. Clicking on a reply used to take you to that exact reply. On this post, it takes me to the post where I am currently searching for a specific comment.
It will literally take hours, because I keep getting sidetracked like this =p
This is one reason I developed the SteemSwitch plugin. Easy to switch between steemit, busy, chainbb, steemd and steemdb for viewing same content. At least on Firefox.
If the system allows self-voting, how is that greedy? It might be more altruistic to spread the wealth, but it's no more greedy than picking up a $20 bill you found on the ground and putting it into the pocket instead of donating it. Sure, it would be very good to donate it, but greedy not to? Why?