Well... allrighty, then!

I started writing a comment, and it turned into a dissertation length piece that's perhaps better put into free-standing post, because it ended up addressing both of your posts as well as additional issues. It'll need to percolate for a couple more days.

In short, I stand more or less in the same corner as @nonameslefttouse in that I agree that we need loads of eyeballs, and we need content consumers, more than anything else. I say that as both a content creator and consumer; as someone who started blogging before blogging was even a "thing" and as someone who has used 50+ "rewards for content" venues since the first one in 1999.

I am also very hesitant on the "get paid for social" approach solely based on functional experience: Of 50-something "rewards-for-content" sites I've been on, all but ONE (not counting Hive) failed spectacularly within two years, not because they had bad ideas or bad management, but because the venue operators grossly underestimated the sheer number of people willing to go to almost any lengths to extract, manipulate, scam, steal, exploit and otherwise grab even fractions of a cent they can get for free.

So how did I get here? I got here as a content consumer. Someone sent me a link to an article about UBI, which happened to be published on St€€m. I started clicking on user names of those who left really intelligent and interesting comments... and decided to make an account here and start blogging because the dialogue was far more intelligent and respectful than Farcebook.

Anyway, this is a really important topic to bring into open discussion, so thanks for the initiative!