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?