Steem isn't the real prize. We are. We prevented our being taken over and subjected to a Communist Totalitarian dictatorship, and we did it by creating Hive. Enabling Hive to be attacked from within is suicide, and those Quislings that did that on Steem are rightly not given free influence to do so on Hive.

Note, we didn't take anything from anybody. We didn't take the Steem of the Quislings, or @justinsunsteemit. They still have those, and the benefits of the governance they voted for. Hive isn't Steem. Hive is intent on maintaining freedom of speech and resisting censorship, and there's a group of users that demonstrated opposition to those goals and acted to censor and eliminate our free speech before we made Hive.

You're arguing that not giving them free influence on Hive is harming them. It's not, and the argument is nonsensical. If you arm your freedom fighters and claim territory as a free state in a war when your country has been attacked by the troops of a despot and conquered, are you somehow obligated to arm your enemies because they now occupy your nation? What about the Quislings that sought to install the dictator over you?

As to decentralization on Hive, we don't really have it. An oligarchy based on massive ninjamined stake has long controlled the consensus, and still does today on Hive. Most of the Steem that exists was mined. All Steem extant that wasn't mined is what has come from the rewards pool, inflation on the mined Steem.

At least the Hegemons of Hive demonstrably are intent on free speech. However, none of them are immortal, and eventually every one of them will die and their stake will end up in someone elses hands (or sooner), who will or won't agree that free speech is desirable. Just like @ned and Tron. Sooner or later enough stake will accumulate in the wallets of Hegemons that do not desire free speech, and then this community will be centralized just like Steem.

Unless we change how governance is influenced. Either we add a mechanism(s) to stake to influence governance of Hive, or we'll eventually see enough stake be centralized to seize Hive. It's a mathematical certainty.

But, so is my death. I don't expect to live forever, and I don't fantasize that Hive is decentralized and can't be taken over. While we're here, we might convince the oligarchs to limit their power and actually decentralize governance of Hive. How likely is that? It doesn't seem very likely to me, tbqh, but it's not impossible, at least.

Don't forget that the Carter administration created al Qaeda. Shrub didn't. He just continued using them, and 9/11 was just another terror operation to increase the wealth and power of the banksters politicians serve. Government is just like Tron's sock puppets on Steem. Good evidence of this is the lack of laws or executive orders to manufacture critical national security goods like medications, ventilators, and hospital beds in the last two months, and that when our 'representatives' in Congress were briefed by intelligence on the pandemic as far back as December, what they did do was sell their personal stocks before the crash.

They don't represent us. In recent decades the banksters have determined that automation means they don't need to parasitize us to maintain their quality of life, as has been true throughout history. The Agendas 21 and 30 set a goal of <1 billion people as a sustainable goal. The Georgia Guidestones halve that. Why do we expect the puppets of banksters to act to save our lives, or the economy we depend on? Banksters just conjure money out of thin air (and do so such that we owe them every nickel they conjure, plus interest, because it's loaned to the government before dumped on the investors in the stock market, like Pelosi and Burr, and we're the taxpayers that pay the debts of government from taxes on our wages).

Sustainable development starts with genocide. Pandemic is the genocidal weapon of choice apparently.

Hive presents a slim chance an actual free and decentralized society can be created. It's the only one I know of presently, so I'm here to make that happen.

I'll probably fail, and die.

But, I'll die free.