I can personally guarantee everyone on this network that my voice has been heard many times, and sometimes is even acted upon, which is pretty cool when you think about it. Everyone has their part to play.

What are there, like 10k active users? Not even close to a parallel comparison.

"We should be having town-hall meetings and discussing these things in a public forum." Great idea, bruv. What in the actual fuck do you think is happening right now? lol. Cut the shit: you're not a victim.

Nice strawman you're building here

Your hyperbole is entertaining I guess, which is why you get those votes.

After the wash, Hive ends up being the exact structure as the hated US government, except you can vote witnesses out at anytime. The inherent complacency of the average human ensures that will be unlikely at any scale that's necessary to improve on the governance structure.

Stake based governance guarantees that an Oligarchy will arise, which it has and be in control when they feel like it. As we are discussing the issue, the one claiming to be asking for a discussion was already signalling 12%. They've since changed it, but shows that we can talk all we want, it's just to make us feel better, because our input is not only unnecessary, but since there's no polling, assumptions will be made claiming the end result is what we wanted.

I've seen this exact thing go down that way multiple times in the past and it's unproveable without polling if something is actually supported by the majority. Also, deny all you want, a bottleneck in governance of 21 people cannot be decentralized. Rationalizations do not equal facts.