Bidbots, not all bad.

They are not the antichrist here to ravish the reward pool.
They may do that, but its not the hammer's fault that it hit your thumb.

When you use bots to buy your friend some rewards that increase her visibility, no problem.
That is just leveraging your stake to help your friend.
The tool is made available to you, who cares if its provider puts profits over people, right?

For the moment let's ignore how stake based voting works in the math.
Let's say that large accounts voting have no impact on everybody else.
Let's pretend that vote bots dont get their rewards by taking rewards from the least powerful of us.
We can act like its ok to push hundreds of third world hungry people away from the few cents they would have gotten.
Nobody cares that those few cents mean the difference between eating or getting online tomorrow to earn enough to eat again, right?
In this environment why wouldn't you buy some rewards?

Now, let's come back to reality.
Steem's community is largely made up of folks that will bend over backwards to help each other.
Then there is the small minority that take profits at any cost.
Those that only associate with others that know their place, those who fawn over the emperor's new robe.
They will run steem into the ground if they can make a buck from it.
'Its just good crapitalism.', they tell us.

Well, newbs, most of you werent here for the n2, you dont know what steem would look like if the greedy whales acted responsibly and let the minnows share in the rewards.
You didn't see the excitement in the mass adopters when the greedy whales were forced to allow the minnows to matter in the math.

We got to see that for a couple days before linear rewards, vote selling, and 'visibility' was foisted upon us by stinc in response to the greedy whales sucking up so much that it made the game pointless to all of us, except them, of course.
One of those whales went so far as to force golos to adopt them, too.
I'm sure he is very proud of himself, his knob slobbers certainly are supportive.
I dont need to call his name, the blockchain has recorded his shameful behavior for as long as the witnesses maintain its integrity.
He may do us all the favor of outing himself by downvoting this post, too!

Irrespective of that, bots can be used to take food out of the minnows' mouths by force.
You can hire a thug to force your way onto the trending page.
Knob slobbers will rejoice with you and tell you how magnificent your new robe looks on you, too!
You dont really care what the real people, those that earn their rewards by doing the work, think, do you?
Why should you care about people that dont even know you exist?
Why should you care about what some grumpy lunatic mumbles about what could have been.
This is good enough, right?

The really sad thing is that as newbs come and accept what we have as normal the push to have what could've been will die and we will be left with being ruled by an invisible oligarchy that rewards its sycophants at the expense of everybody else and nobody will know the difference except some old, crazy lunatics that mumble to their 20 viewers.
Smdh.

RIP, @transparencybot, we will dust you off when the greedy whales move on to bully users of some other coin.