ait so i had claude shorten this post for me (sorry)

Their main critique is that the community needs to think more about price growth — e.g. funding proposals that bring in more buyers than they cost

the thing is hive is kind of a moral project from many stakeholders, I think many of them, myself included, would rather let it drop lower than try and "trick" others to buy into it - although I'm sure you didn't mean it like that. But that is kind of the general theme with crypto, you're just trying to bring in people under you to sell tokens to them for higher than you bought. Many here don't wanna give a false sense of hopium to people and they know how much of the crypto sphere is full of smokes and mirror.

The attention economy can't really bloom until we hit bigger userbase numbers, that's just how things are with social media.

I don't disagree that we should be more careful, but being able to reward people the way we can do on hive is not something we'll be able to find anywhere else, if you're using hive correctly that is. And I personally like it that way, even if many turn out to backstab or disappoint you over time and cheat/scam/leave. Some stay and there's room for them to grow for a few more years until things get a lot harder inflation wise.