Shortsighted indeed.  People who are buying their votes do not have faith in themselves.  It doesn't seem like they're here to blog.  They're not seeing a future.. they just want this money, so they'll come and fucking take it from everyone else.

This will sound crazy to most people here because I don't think many of them take this blogging thing seriously. 

If I make x amount of money here in a year and some bigshot like Lorne Micheals wants to speak to me and offer a nice writing job, how can I refuse his low salary if I purchased what I'm worth as a writer.  If you're good at what you do, Steemit can naturally pay more than many writing jobs.  Lorne can pass me a number and I can laugh at it if it's unreasonable.  He'd laugh at me if I bought my value.  This is the business. 

There doesn't seem to be any business sense here.  People just want to say things and get paid.

*disclaimer.  I'm not talking about the people who do give a shit and put their all into their work.  I'm talking only about the bottomfeeders like contentjunkie who are just here to rape and pillage.

Those bought votes aren't even advertising.  An advertiser comes to ME and pays ME.  That entire narrative about exposure is a farce.  People buying votes are not getting views.  All that money for one or two days of so called exposure?  These people are amateurs and that's why they cheat.

In my opinion grumpycat, you're not doing enough.