When I first read this a while ago I wanted to address a lot in it, despite it being a work of satire, but I got sidetracked and forgot about it. Now, I still don't want to take the time to go over all of it bit by bit, but it touches on something important. A lot of people come here wanting to make money from posting content, and that's great. Good content should be rewarded. Having said that, the monetary aspect of Hive isn't the hook. Facebook, Ig, Twitter, etc., are all private domains we treat as public spaces, and they just aren't. Sure, it would be nice to get paid a living wage for having anything to say about anything, and I don't disagree that sometimes this place feels like a feudalistic landscape, but the real value here isn't how much we can earn, but the fact that this is actually a public space in the digital realm. Just because you aren't earning for any reason, be it valid or imagined, is secondary to the fact that this is your account... not a loaner from someone who can cancel you for complaining about how things are. Downvote? Yeah, absolutely. Is that awesome? No. Not at all. But this is an experiment. It's in it's infancy. It's up to us to figure out how to grow it into something worth having. I realize this reply may be a little out of place, considering the intent of the post, but what is satire if not a plea to look at things as they are?