I am not so naivete as to believe that something comes for free, the running of the nodes comes out of the rewards pools before distribution of the rewards. They get some percentage, can't recall right off what the amount was. If I remember correctly there was a post a month or so ago about it paying out 14,000 a month, maybe it was a week, who knows but it was a lot. The point is you have to create a demand for a product before you can profit off that product. If there's no demand it's a dud. Twitter was built to create a demand that could profit off advertising revenue, that was Jack's goal and he achieve it and became a billionaire. So why should people whose participation on twitter have to pay for making someone a multi billionaire? Just like why should people have to pay to make whales richer while people struggle to even get a foot hold on here with pennies being pitched at them. Most people don't live in Nigeria you know. This is totally different than a concept built on selling a product to people, yes that product still has to be able to create a demand for it but people know the difference between buying a product vs participating for free to create profit for someone. Totally two different concepts, both hedged by those with the money or those willing to invest the monies to build a product that one either sells or offers free participation that enables them to make money off that participation to enrich themselves. Elon's problems comes from within and the changes necessary to complete the tracking and censorship of over five million tweets a day. In other words he's building a whole new infrastructure that most experts has thus far claimed is impossible. So now the end game has changed and it's not one's free participation to make me billions but Musk charging to build an infrastructure that he will use against those who are freely participating. The goal is to be able to track any tweet anywhere in the world within five minutes. You want to pay for that because he's fooled people into believing it's just a sensible business model...if yes than you really need to get out more.