One of the most thoughtful, well-considered posts I have ever read on Hive, both hard-hitting and compassionate and understanding that human nature and human systems, human need and human history, matter.

The terminology of "extraction" does disturb me, however, because there is not a rule book for Hive that ever explains there is an expectation that people cannot do their work, get paid, and take ALL of their rewards to support their lives. In the case of Latin America, much of the citizenry there is suffering the results of hundreds of years of resource and labor extraction ... others are rich (read: the "First World") and they are impoverished, and in great need. So, here they come to a place where they can earn fairly for their work, and there is no one to explain all these community expectations. Now, in the cases where CLEARLY there is manipulation of the system through multiple accounts and schemes, OK: I can see the problem. But the idea that people not told that there is a future dream they need to buy into are judged for doing what works for their life is disturbing. As no less than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once pointed out, a whole lot of people are expected to work very hard to build others' dreams and told to WAIT on building their own -- and cast as the criminals for not waiting.

At the LEAST, we ought not to judge people for not knowing what we have not told them -- and I appreciate your comment below in terms of education, not shaming, as the solution.