You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Reports from the Witnesses 2016-11-20
For the community or for themselves? Yes there are that do a lot for the community but let's, say we make the witness payout to $0, how many of them do you think will still being doing a lot for the community?
To expect people to do things for free is a little unreasonable. The idea behind Steem is to pay people for their contributions for the community. I think most people that are here are to some extent participating because they hope to profit from the success of the project in the long-term.
Then I wouldn't say they are doing it for the community, they happen to do things for themselves that is benefiting the community.
Even this report, I wrote it 'for the community'. I also did it because I figured there was a decent chance I could earn SP from it. It is a little bit from column A, a little bit from column B. True altruism these days is rare. I'd say a mutually beneficial goal where both the community and individual benefits is a win :)