I find it pretty annoying that people think they should be paid for copying news, stories, or art from other websites and presenting it as their own work. Or worse, run it through an seo spinner or translate it into another language and claim they "wrote" it. All they while thanking everyone who complements them on their skill.

Most of us don't really care about copyright or intellectual property. What we do care about is honest work and the success of steemit, STEEM, & SBD. Nobody wants to invest and buy a cryptocurrency that supports identity theft, plagiarism, spam, & scammers.

There are thousands of accounts a day trying to earn a buck off of someone else's work through plagiarism or copy/paste content with a source link. They don't care about a damn thing other than the money and making it with the least amount of effort. They'll take and take until the steemit is so filled with it that STEEM/SBD are worthless and it doesn't pay for their time or their posting bots.

You want to pay them for it? Go ahead. Send them some STEEM or SBD from your own wallet. Don't expect the community to just sit back and allow them to take from the reward pool for stealing someones content or art. Not to mention spamming, scamming, and ID theft.

By the way, I thought Karl Marx died in 1883. I guess he's a time traveler who stole your work? I'm always curious about the excuses others have for presenting another's creative work as their own.