Just like why should people have to pay to make whales richer while people struggle to even get a foot hold on here with pennies being pitched at them.
Nobody is saying this.
You're making stuff up.
It's a strawman argument.
Why should I have to pay for food?
The grocery store has a ton of food they should just give me some for free.
Legit communism.
Which is hilarious considering I often make pro-communist arguments.
But I certainly have the wherewithal to understand that you making such arguments is hypocritical at best.
It is not a novel concept to pay people for providing service and infrastructure.
It is the STANDARD.
Providing free service in exchange for data and advertising dollars is in fact the weird business model.
And it's coming to an end whether you like it or not.
the running of the nodes comes out of the rewards pools before distribution of the rewards
Again, that's just flat out wrong for a couple of reasons.
First, on a technical level, the "rewards pool" is only for rewards (authors/curators).
@hive.fund (10%)Peakd?
Leofinance?
Ecency?
Liketu?
Proofofbrain?
Literally none of these frontends get paid to fulfill API requests.
Because no one gets paid to run a frontend.
You only get paid if you mint a block, and that is it.
Just like any other cryptocurrecy.
Which creates poor incentives and difficulty scaling.
Which I have already gone into detail extensively,
but you seem to think you know better while completely avoiding the main topics of discussion.
How will decentralized infrastructure scale in a decentralized way if it's impossible to provide free service in exchange for advertising dollars (an inherently centralized business model)?
Until you can answer that question nothing you say matters or has any relevance to this topic of discussion.
The problem is you can't answer the question.
The question has already been answered and all you're doing is saying "no that doesn't sound right that won't work I want free stuff blah blah blah greedy whales blah blah".
In reality the thing that isn't working is the current system, which you seem to think works great when in alignment with the current argument being made, but works equally terrible once the narrative changes. Pick a lane. One that doesn't involve getting something for nothing. #sustainability
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