"Except it's not decentralized. There's the hierarchy, the middle man, and the little person just like in real life."

It is real life. Hierarchy isn't centralization. Middle men are increasingly deprecated as decentralized production is adopted, and ever more specialized, and thus decentralized, as the diversity of production requires specificity. The little person is the one that last adopts the means of production suitable to their personal circumstances. The benefits of production accumulate, so those that do so first accumulate the most benefits, and the last accumulate the least.

"I've often wondered how greedy people have to be that they can't even upvote you one single penny for posting under their tags."

I've noticed some requesting support for their proposals, yet failing to even vote on posts they use to make their requests, and this despite them constantly being upvoted. It's not greedy. It's just rude. I haven't mentioned it, not even replied, because such social ineptitude is pretty common on social media.

Sometimes you get pretty off the rails, LOL.

I will point out that because of your particular way of looking at things, your criticism is particularly valuable to me, precisely because it is off the rails. You have a unique way of looking at things that forces me to reconsider my understanding, to look at my way of looking, from your perspective, and that is extremely useful.

Thanks!