I don't know why it is that as soon as there is "money involved" people start to behave badly. OK, so by "badly," I mean self-serving, typically to the detriment of others (or a majority).

I love the idealistic roots behind Steemit, but not so much the ways there immediately is an invasion of people who exploit the system. But we have a system here where you can get benefit through a legitimate approach ("create worthy content and be social")... so WHY focus on exploiting the system with groups like this?

In a sense, it's shades of the same issue with whales delegating their SP to paid upvote services for profit. I have nothing against investors wanting to profit, but why the hell not delegate that same SP to trusted manual curators, also for profit?

Why are these people always choosing to profit from the lowest common denominator, when they can also profit from a higher common denominator? It feels really sketchy to me...

So is @patrice and Co. aware of this group?