Thanks :). Glad to know that other minnows have had the same observations. I tagged it as funny so that people didn't think I was actually being serious on account of so many truths being mixed in with the sarcasm.
If Steemit were a social experiment, I think one conclusion that could be reached is that some people have an inherent need to govern others. I'm honestly amazed at how quickly a utopian idea can becaome dystopian in practice.
For sure. I actually just posted about that. I don't know if it's inherent, exactly, but I propose that as a child, there's a survival level need to understand the rules of society, and as you reach adulthood and find that not everybody agrees on the rules, there's a bunch of chest-pounding as your identity is wrapped up in your version of the rules. I think we can get over it / be willing and able to coexist with a lot of grey area. It takes work, and it takes even more work to also stand up for principles that you think are necessary to a functional society.
Like, maybe we can agree that your desire to earn via bot curation delegation and my belief that that's cheating the system, while opposed, are still opinions that we can accept in each other and discuss rationally without needing to do something extreme, like leave the platform entirely if one or the other side "wins". But things like whether or not human trafficking is ok are things that, if we disagree, we might not be able to be in each other's presence anymore.
That kind of navigation can only be done with adult supervision (being an adult).
Here's the post, btw: https://steemit.com/advice/@improv/epiphanies-and-revelations