Take this example to the extreme:  Everyone exploiting Steem gets flagged into the ground.  Now everyone who deserves rewards gets upvoted.  Now you have a perfect system.

If we do it your way the system remains totally exploited.  It in no way has the same effect.  Flagging actually creates the win/win situation.  Even the people getting flagged win because the entire platform is now worth more because it's functioning properly with the proof-of-brain concept. 

If you believe in proof-of-brain, then allowing trash posts to rake in hundreds of dollars is the equivalent to allowing counterfeit Steem being created.

99% of Steem interactions could be flags, but as long as the remaining 1% are upvoting using honorable proof-of-brain tactics the system is working perfectly.

You can't marginalize the concept by twisting the facts and making it look like a small amount on paper. Do you really think you can be that reductive and simplify it down to one account?  I've already explained how flags could be used to implement true proof-of-brain and stop any "counterfeit" Steem from being created.  That isn't a few cents per person.  That's a platform worth 1000 times more than it is now.  

People who flag others because they got flagged are immediately in the wrong.  This is childish temper tantrum behavior.  That kind of wrong action automatically deserves more flags. 

You flag something because because in your opinion it's worth less reward than it's getting and you're willing to lose your own reward to burn someone else's.  If a person can't remain objective and insists on acting like a raging troll over getting flagged, you're saying the answer is to not flag them?  That is so backwards I don't even know where to begin.

War is literally a business.  Do you know how much money is made by Big Oil by promoting death and destruction?  Again, don't even know where to begin on that front.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dttG9aIa9RQ

And yet again with the $15 an hour thing.  As if we can't afford to pay people $15 an hour?  How many years have wages been stagnant while production and the top 1% have skyrocketed?  Your perspective on the economy is borderline conservative propaganda. You can't have your cake and eat it too.  If you want to be conservative you should at least admit that the purpose of war is economic... literally since the beginning of time. 

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