As someone from a poor country, I have to say Hive has changed my life. When I just joined Hive, I’d spend 5-6 hours behind my very shitty phone and engage about 30-50 posts daily. That was my effort and how I could sink myself into the community because I sure as hell had no money to buy and power up hive.

When I began to earn, I joined the Powerup but not always. Then fast forward, I started powering down my earnings to actually build something for myself which I did. And I give more time to the Hive Community (as much as I can anyway).

The reason I say this is, for people in worse situation than I am, you can’t expect their mindset to be the same. You can’t expect people whose “3000” is your “$2” to be able to survive by giving more than they have. While I get the whole “giveback” thing, these people (some of them at least) give their time. Hours of it. So, they earned that money and can decide what to do with it. But that’s just the way I see it. It’s different for different people.

And users should be valued, not scared away. Especially when it comes to users who do actually provide value. But that’s only me. Dictating and attacking people because they don’t suit your ideals and how you view the world, when you know nothing about them or where they come from, is not nice at all. But that’s just the way I see it.

We all have different views 😉