I've often thought that the Hive blockchain is a mirror of the real world. It's just an experiment to see if we can function harmoniously with a different approach to governance and keep it decentralised. I've found it fascinating to watch how things unfold with this ideal as the driving force and it ha been pretty much as expected, given human nature. If you don't want certain types draining the monetary value from it then some form of control from others needs to be exerted.

The monetising aspect does tend to dictate that the community side of things leans more towards business that personal, especially with people coming in from poorer countries. Unfortunately most of those here for the money side of things don't really grasp the concept of the business and financial side of things. Community is still paramount if you're wanting to sell your product. The best sales people are know that you look after and interact with your customers. There's also the simple fact that if you rely on Hive for an income, you should perhaps research how Hive gets its value. Constantly pulling out of the system and adding no value to it yourself will only reduce its value and that is more detrimental to you than to those of us who have other sources of income. I wrote a post a while back now on the different ways in which you can use the blockchain to learn about business development, but I doubt anyone read it who want already aware and more business minded anyway.

Something I find rather ironic is the amount of people who don't seem to realise that (for the most part [some would argue otherwise]) the content creators most rewarded on here are the ones who give value to others here as well. They complain that they don't get good votes, but they have done nothing to contribute back to others here. Their account has little Hive power because they constantly power down and remove it and they often don't vote on others work either, so they are losing out on this form of revenue generation. Once again demonstrating that even if you are only here for the business side of things you still need to understand how a community works. It's not just take it's figuring out what you can give as well. Nobody wants to carry on giving where they don't receive anything in return.

A big difference between here and the real world has been the rise of AI. Now anyone can produce quality content without actually having to do it themselves and it can be hard to tell the difference between AI and meatbags produced writing. I keep seeing people throwing around the accusations of accounts being bots on social media and thought they were just trying to insult others. Yet it turns out that there are actually an awful lot of comments from bots programmed to comment from certain viewpoints. Propaganda bots if you like. I was gobsmacked and now I'm starting to see finally see patterns for certain topics. It does start to make me wonder, however, whether we would even be able to tell if we are conversing with AI. Our wonderful conversations here could be two humans conversing, an AI and a human conversing or even two AIs conversing.

Now I'd better leave it there and get on with my list of chores for the day.