> Make an excel spreadsheet and compare it and you will see each year under 75 25 whales get diluted,

And I bet you did meticulous digging to make sure they aren't voting on alts, etc. But hey, what do I know about various ways to game the system after all the years I've been here?

> I'm sure you can appreciate people getting thier viice heard to thier representatives right?

Witnesses don't have to represent your views. Advocating that is just one of your arbitrary, and personal, parameters.

They objectively secure the chain. That's it.

And funnily enough, there are plenty of people voting for @earn.hive because they are so desperately chasing that money.

<h4>Here's my criticism against the "truther" community on Hive:</h4>

In all the years of the "truthers" have wielded the massive free delegations from @jamesc and whale support from people like @xeldal, none of you could put together one product or service that entice people to funnel inflation/outside funds your way.

Nobody from the "truther" community was able to put something together like a Hive Engine. A cool community like LeoFinance. Or a valuable service like FRIDAY bot.

And you are blaming it on the "lack of decentralization"? 

You willingly followed these "whales" into a new chain they forked. You didn't have to. There were other, much smaller voices, that tried to fork, but were all ignored. In fact, I remember @anthonyadavisii tried to make a fork, but was pretty much buried in the dust.

The reason: it's always about the rewards and the money. NO EXCEPTIONS. 99.5% that say it's not about them are dishonest, at best.

It's actually hilarious to read posts like this. It's like some of you guys would jump on the "Soros is bad" train, but fail to learn from how he managed to build up an empire and then gained influence to push out his propaganda. You don't have to be scummy like him, but the principles apply.

Instead of having something to offer, you guys did the exact same thing that we made fun of the so-called businesses on Hive/Steem back in the days. Your sole revenue stream and value proposition is THE REWARD POOL. 

Your only product, if you could even call them that, is supposed pieces of "journalism". Okay, that's fine, but where are your sponsors? Why is it that the entire community subsists on the generosity of Hive natives? What happened to all the similar-minded folks outside of Hive? Last time I checked, Hive isn't the last bastion of their existence.

Imagine if Splinterlands based its business model solely on the reward pool. Imagine if LeoFinance only used the reward pool. They wouldn't be where they are today. Do you think @aggroed amassed his power from witness rewards alone? Do you think @khaleelkazi got where he is today by posting like a mad mofo?

Instead of wondering what you could do to push governance in your favor, I've only seen unproductive complaints. 

It's absolutely hysterical to me that the last resort is to behave like the crypto versions of Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders.

At the end of the day, I'm tired of seeing stuff like this.

....this is my reasoning to, with mostly all the comments I make....

Sounds way more centralized than on Hive, mate. It's pure POS, so the rich will literally just get richer. Here 15% goes to HP holders and 10% to witnesses while the majority goes to authors and curators, do you think the orcas and whales we have here today who most likely didn't buy in or use hardware to mine would exist on ETH? Not saying whales who hold their HP don't grow nicely alongside everyone else but anyone has a chance here earning their way up. Look at aggroed, marky, tarazkp, etc. Hell even I didn't buy any stake until after the 2018 bull run. None of that would've been possible on any other chain, going POS won't help that so it's really annoying when people bring these propositions in their arguments against Hive when there's literally no other blockchain out there offering the same opportunities to "non-whales". 

I will probably sell again at some point. Right now I feel it is massively undevalued.

In any case, there is plenty of HIVE and HBD (which can be converted into HIVE) being sold from inflation/rewards every day. There is no shortage of HIVE to buy for new would-be stakeholders.