There was an old man who was very poor and he was selling eggs for living. One day a rich lady approached him and asked him: "how much do you sell the eggs?" The old man replied : "thirty cents per egg!!" and she replied to him: "I will buy 10 eggs but I will pay you 2.50 $ or else I will leave. The old man agreed with the rich lady because he hadn't sell any egg that day and he thought that maybe this lady will bring him some luck. 
The rich lady left very happy because she bought the eggs in a very good price, she put them in her luxury car and  went on the restaurant opposite the old man, to have lunch with a friend of her. There they ordered a lot of dishes. They ate very small quantity of food and left most of the food in the dishes. Then they asked for the bill. It was 37.50 $,  The gave 40$ at the waiter and told him to keep the change.

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This incident was very natural for the waiter but it was also very painful for the poor egg seller who was watching them across the street.

The thing is:
Why do we always show our strength when we see a poorer man? And why do we become generous to those who do not need our generosity so much?

When I saw this story online, it reminded me the community of steemit. There are a lot of rich peole here that they don't really need support and votes on their blogs, but most of the users support them because they have power and money.  On the other hand minnows also vote for rich users with the hope that they will return the favor.  So what are we accomplishing with that tactic? Rich users become richer and minnows are struggling for a vote by begging for followers  and support generally. 

fortunately there are some people who think different and try to support new users. Some of them are @skapaneas @onceuponatime @ruth-girl @liondani  @berniesanders  the team behind @curie and @steemstem , @kevinwong,  @pharesim  and of course the @minnowssupport team. I am sure that there are a lot of other users that vote and support newbies but I don't remember them right now. so if you think I forgot someone write his username on the comments and I will add him! What these people do for the community is remarkable because they care about the whole growth of the platform and not only their interests.  I want to thank all those people for their support to all minnows including myself. :)

[source of the story](http://trelogiannis.blogspot.gr/2018/01/o-30.html)

Thanks for reading..I would love to see on the comments some of your stories with people that helped you here when you were a newbie!! See you next time :)