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     5 years ago 

    "...you can't be taxed on money you never owned."

    I submit you do not grasp the governmental mechanism: inheritance taxes. VATs. etc... Almost all taxes are on money you don't - and more to the point, never will - own.

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     5 years ago (edited)

    "I don't make the decisions I just react to them and adapt.

    blah, blah, ... Taxes. that's hilarious, you can't be taxed on money you never owned."

    So according to your own logic then, retaliatory downvotes shouldn't be an issue?

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       5 years ago 

      Agreed. Downvotes are a normal part of the system. It matters a bit more when the big guys use them.

      However, in general I agree.

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         5 years ago (edited)

        I think they became more normalized when Steemit added in "reward disputes" as a reason to flag. They did this knowing full well that they couldn't control the abuse of the flag mechanic. So basically, they washed their hands of the problem by implementing a top-down culture change.

        Besides that, changing the GUI to show the flag function as a downvote on par with upvotes was also a move to change the Steem culture. It's clear to me that they're trying to control our ethics to accommodate the inherent flaws in the platform. This isn't necessarily a good thing. If a system is broken it should be fixed, you shouldn't break the way people behave to accommodate a broken system. I mean you can try, but in the end, it won't work.

        Now because of all the downvotes, it appears that Haejin is flagging people with his full steem power. He was just minding his own business before, but the system turned the people against each other and have divided and conquered. For the "greater good" of course, that's how it always starts. That is almost always the beginning of the end. Better on the blockchain than IRL I say, lets see the experiment out to its inevitable conclusion.

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         5 years ago 

        This place is so dumb and doomed. ;)

        Everyone else is dumb...

        I got it. I've heard it. I stay because of accounts like yours. :)

        Moon Soon, doesn't matter about the petty.

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         5 years ago 

        Bahh, my FUD is so much
        more classy than everyone
        elses. You know you love it!

        ;-)

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