Well to be honest from quite a while back when I got really pissed off, it's been quite a while and I don't remember the name but he developed that parley site, but he wasn't the only one involved at the time there was someone else, I did file a complaint with the FTC and before you can file a complaint they ask you what your complaint involves as they aren't going to waste their time filing reports that have no merit...at the end of telling him what my complaint concerned he thought it justifiable enough to take it. I asked him what happens next and he said they get sent out to all the federal and state agencies where they sit until the pile gets big enough that someone finally takes notice and does something about it. In other words when they make a big enough mess on someone's desk who finally decides to pick them up and do something about it. It's been I think well over a year now and I haven't heard back but that doesn't mean that someday isn't coming. For everyone they piss off that pile gets bigger.

As for your argument that people buy non essential things to bolster their chances your point isn't worth holding. People invest in those non essentials to bolster they chances at succeeding. If they do everything right as depicted they should be able to succeed. Failing that success no matter what they do with all the right tools and time invested then that becomes concerning as to why. Nobody should be left holding a dead fish because a system is stacked against them, which we all know this system is. The plain matter of fact is that until Steemit is brought under the governing laws the system will always be stacked because people (higher ups) make their own rules to abide by. I can give you one simple example right here, that being that under federal tax code Steemit has to give the names of all the people they pay more than six hundred dollars a year out to along with those individuals social security numbers or relevant tax ID to the IRS. I know this to be fact because as a landlord if I use a self contractor (which people who participate on this site are doing, self contracting themselves out for a return on profit) and I pay that person more than six hundred dollars I am obligated to report that to the IRS. We all know Steemit doesn't do that. But that's just one example of running rough. The last hard folk they did runs much similar to the complaint I filed which if someday if it ever gets looked it will only bolster the case that the system is designed in favor of the upper tier. Think logically about what they are doing, someone invest time in a system that says you with this much invested you are worth this amount in a vote, then they come down and say now you are totally worthless after one has done invested an incredible amount of time to get to not only where they were promised they'd be at to start but take away any gains you made by slashing your worth and handing it to the upper tier. Now take that same scenario and apply it also to people who invested their money. It just don't add up. Part of the problem is also the fact that a lot of the people invested here are based in foreign countries who may not have the same laws so they feel empowered to just slap anybody around who complains as they are basically untouchable. So it's quite a mess but over all that though is the fact it is a US based company, someone owns it and it's their job to figure out the mess. Will they ever be forced to?...I guess that will all depend upon whoever that person is sitting behind a desk gets tired of seeing Steemit complaints flying across his desk. I mean I really, really like to invest in Steemit, wholeheartedly, but not when the game is stacked against me.