RE: Not My Meme! #1109

I'd rather have leaders of communities with decentralized control by those communities of rewards. I recall having intense discussions about that prior to Ned's Hair taking the money and going home. Ned was under immense pressure from the whales, and sold rather than using his potential power to defeat them. Dan didn't do us any favors by leaving either. My take is that they just wanted money, so when the going got tough and principles were at issue, they took money and threw the community - and humanity - to the wolves.

Proper leadership could have restrained whale votes, prevented bidbots, and adapted the platform as each problem revealed weaknesses in the platform and the code. The Founder's stake was nominal to enable them to make what they wanted to happen come to pass, but we have not had proper leadership. The claim is we are decentralized, but that isn't true either. We are milked by profiteers, not led by leaders.

I don't believe in 'a leader'. They're all profiteers. I'm just happy Soros or Gates hasn't a hankering to wreck Hive, yet. I can't even imagine what the reaction of Valueplan to US boots on the ground in Venezuela will be, but I am sure there will be panic (unless they're spooks, in which case there won't be a problem, and maybe BT will be up for a Nobel Peace prize next year?)

I am a bit cynical.