Do we give up our decency as human beings to fit in? Do we give a damn about other people? Or are we just here for $$$?

Steemit community? What Steemit community?

We're trying to market this place. We don't have time for morality. We can't admit we have a problem without reframing the discussion to something else. Of course the big players who benefit from the system don't say anything about it. They're getting theirs! That's how the world works. You either get yours and everything is bubble perfect, or you're not getting yours and you don't deserve to.

And when they do speak of it, of course the argument is reframed to "boohoo you are crying over lost rewards", ignoring the cold hard blockchain embedded facts. You can't hide from the truth on the blockchain. But you can ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist.

There is a certain sorrow to it. This tech/resource combination that Steemit provides us with, and yet we still seek to act no differently to our destructive heartless societies.

As we sacrifice our fellow citizens to the street to prop up our failed fiat system we look away. We're so used to ignoring problems and pretending these problems don't exist, or that they are of no concern to us. We are as cold as wallstreet.

We can all wait for scientists to provide an answer to climate change as we ignore our own implicit roles involved with it, just like we can all wait for developers to solve this problem as we ignore our own implict roles involved with it. That's a great idea; no responsibility or accountabilty in our community. Let's ignore the here and now. Let's ignore it for months and months until it is so far embedded into the system we cannot see it anymore. We become so short sighted we cannot see what is in front of us.

His only desire...

But it's not my problem. I'm not involved. Community?

Anyway I will be ignoring this stark issue and never mention it again. Thank you to all the brave leaders of this community who have stayed quiet, or helped to reframe the discussion to "dem poor people!" just like our current corrupt government and media institutions.
"Keep your head down and stay in line" that's the expression you've been fed all your life.
Just another cold hard automaton.
"As long as I'm getting mine..."

Thanks community!

@thooms @seablue @noganoo (and many more) thank you for trying to improve this system for all of us. The blockchain is forever and so is my thanks. I don't think things will change unless we are willing to work together as a community, and to see our flaws not as something to be hidden, but as something to point out, so that we may change, continuously improving what we have here.
Of course, change is difficult when those with the most power to affect the change are comfortably getting theirs.

@RiskDebonair
Sorrow & Disappointment Doesn't Describe it