Sell hopium everyday for fat votes, never go against the grain and be rewarded for it.
Percentage Gain
Another thing I wrote about over the years is the ability for smaller accounts to massive increase their influence.
The tendency is to look at the raw numbers. Instead, a better approach is to look at percentages.
If an account has 10K HP, adding 2K, or less than 6 HP per day, is a 20% gain in a year. Here is where the middle class can expand its influence.
Considering that curation and inflation adjustment come in near 11%, this means the only needs around 900 HP, or less than 3 per day, from online activity (posting and commenting).
To contrast, Blocktrades, with roughly 12 million HP, needs to generate over 1 million from the same activity. It isn't going to happen.
@taskmaster4450 a prominent hopium seller on Hive claims that looking at things at a percentage basis is a better approach.
So let's take a look at things in percentages.
An account that has 2K HP, powers up another 2K HP. Would you look at that a 100% increase in "influence". Wow! At this speed my man is going to take over blocktrades in this influence race.
No, he is not. Blocktrades would just need to increase his HP by 0.02% to match that same increase in influence.
Do you know why? Because influence is not measured in percentages, it is measured in concrete value that is your HP.
Telling people "WOW! Look at you, you just increased your influence by 100%" is nothing more than selling hopium. This amount of increase in HP doesn't even match what blocktrades gets from passive inflation.
Disparate people of Hive Middle-Class will never be able to have the same influence that someone like blocktrades has. Claiming otherwise is just selling hopium to masses. Telling them if you stack your HP like a good boy, you too would be able to wield the same influence as blocktrades or insert any other whale here. This is simply not true.
Inject that hopium straight to my veins chief
So, why being a hopium seller is the cushiest job on Hive? Well, masses crave the hopium. They want to feel like they are important, they want to feel that whatever they are doing on chain amount to something and when they see a post that supports this narrative. It is lauded as a great post. Churning out hopium posts day after day is the easiest thing to do when people are craving it. You can do nothing wrong while posting hopium.
Anyone here can just scroll taskmaster's post history and see the hopium. One day it is Hive hopium, another day it is Web3 hopium.
You post hopium everyday, and you get fat stacks everday. Life is good!
Sorry, we just run out of hopium
Remember Polycub? Oh man hopium was through the roof when it got launched and a few months after that. I hate to admit, I also participated in said hopium during that time. Call it naivety.
What happens to hopium when a project gets shelved in the dusty shelves of failure? It ceases, of course! No one will buy the hopium of a failed project. Go and checkout taskmaster's post history in recent times. Let me know if you find a post about Polycub.
Anyway that is enough of a rant I think. Upcoming; a rant on Polycub and LIES!
Saying that adding 2K HP to a 20K account really means that "the middle class can expand its influence." Umm, not really. Adding 2K may feel like an accomplishment (and it is), the real-world "influence" is very small. Daily curations and comments are what build true favor with HIVIANS. Large HP is nice, but only goes so far. YouTube "influencers" have no HIVE POWER number, they don't need it. Their own personalities are their influence.
!WINE
!COFFEE
!PGM
Influence here represents concrete actions you can take with your HP. Voting for a witness, a proposal or just voting a post. Things that actually influence the Hive Blockchain.
We are not talking about the abstract influence. Since the concrete version is what taskmaster talks about in his post about Hive Middle-Class.
Quotes are taskmaster's words in his post, I should probably make that clearer.
Basically, this post is a critique of that post and taskmaster in general.
I've always seen the technical influence on the blockchain (voting) as inherently linked to the social and behavioral influence of people. This is why when I vote, I always vote 100% on everything, even when from a technical or economical point of view, I would do much better using smaller percentages. From a social standpoint, it's better to give it ALL.
"Come for the crypto, stay for the community." I see community (and positive social pressure) as the thing that stops people from pumping and dumping. It encourages powering up, it encourages interactions, encourages content creation. For the most part, HIVE hasn't had the rollercoaster experience of some other tokens. I believe that positive social pressure has played a role in that.
I know the post is about hopium and is a critique of taskmaster's claims about the reality of the HIVE blockchain. But some honest and reasonable "hope" is always a good thing. We just have to be honest with ourselves and with others. I've been posting here on HIVE (formerly STEEM) since 2017. HIVE is supposed to be $10 by now, according to the hopium of yesteryear.
Problem with this, you are confounding two different things together. Of course, anyone can have influence that is independent of the HP they have, but this influence wouldn't translate to influence over the blockchain.
Even in the example you gave, your influence over the blockchain is just the value of your 100% vote. Your influnce outside of your HP can't suddenly make your vote value to be 105%.
And if continue on your example, if after your 100% vote, I in-turn vote your post for 100% that is my influence over the blockchain and not yours. Even if your 100% vote was the catalyst for it.
This is what I mean by concrete influence and which taskmaster post was about.
I agree honest and reasonable hope is a good thing.
Saying "Hey if you keep posting, you might hit 2000 HP by the end of year." to someone with 1.5K HP is honest and reasonable.
Saying, "Hey, you increased your HP from 1K to 2K. Look at that 100% gain. With those gains you will have the same influence over the blockchain as blocktrades one day." is dishonest. It is selling false hope, i.e hopium :)
@blocktrades ya'll got any hopium?
Now back on topic..
What were we talking about about again?
If little Timmy stack more hive, hive could reach 1 billion dollar EOY!!! 🚀 🚀
I'll suck all the dicks, and get it done I'm a day!!!
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