I agree.

With all I see going on, I firmly believe that $100 is a low price for STEEM.  The SMTs along with apps that basically cover the entire social media spectrum (DTube, Zappl, Steemit, Steepshot) are basically poised to rewrite all the rules as they apply to this arena.  One only needs to look at the values given to twitter, FB, Youtube, and instagram (that one sold for $1B) to realize it is a huge market.  

The steem blockchain can be one of the first to truly gain worldwide recognition, not because of publicity and hype, but, rather, due to the developments that are taking place on it.  These are apps people will use.

After being on this planet for 34 years, I have come to realize that greed and short-sightedness are traits that the majority of humans seem to be "blessed" with...

@snowflake did create the solution at the end which I am trying to fully understand...I'm waiting for him to spell it out for me.

Ok, I agree with you. Please tell me how i should edit my post.
I have added your solution to the post, at the bottom. 
Wasn't your post meant to get people upset? That's how many of us perceived it. That's how you wrote it... in order to wake up everyone.

I have edited my post. If you find something offensive, let me know. I am very willing to adjust anything that is not accurate.

I think it is a very real dilemma similar to what every whistleblower is facing and every parent is facing too. Unfortunately our authorities do not see it as a dilemma and people are hurt in the courts for telling the truth when they could easily just shut up and not being punished.
 
Specifically, the dilemma that i see:
**When someone tells us some truth that may hurt them, do we punish people (children) for telling the truth?**

If we do, children (in this example) will lose their trust in us and will never come out telling us truth again.

I think that it is still bad (not just making it "look bad") - wake up call or not. Some things are just below of some people's dignity, regardless of the money involved.

It is similar to how do we know someone's character. It is by how a person acts when "nobody's looking". That was exactly the case i think. Whether we are told about it or not, it is where the person's inner compass points to. 

Even if there are loopholes in the system and we all know what is an honorable thing to do. If you discovered a loophole it is up to you whether to use it or not. It is like if you found someone's wallet. Is it a crime to keep it? Well legally probably not. One person would take it. But another one would go out of their way to find the owner and give it back.

There are always two approaches in life!

Another illustration that i like. I think it originally comes from natives if i remember correctly. **There is a good wolf and a bad wolf living inside each of us and they always fight. Which one wins? ... THE ONE YOU FEED!**

So if you discovered the loophole, reported it (to whomever, the community, the Witnesses, the developers etc) but did not use it for your financial gain - it would put you on one side. And it would be indeed a wake up call. If you USED it first, benefited from it financially, and then bragged about it - i think that puts you on the opposite side.

ALSO from reading your post i have a feeling different than what you present now.
I did not get the feeling of a **wake up call** AT ALL! 
This is how I've read what was between the lines - it was a guidance to the fairly new and poor users mixed with a little bit of a blame and shaming them for not getting enough profit by not giving YOU enough PROFIT. 
**That was the SPIRIT of what I've read and how i understood it**

See the difference?

Even if you say you meant it differently i'm sharing with you how it was actually perceived.  Hope it helps.

agree.

I agree.  There are times I get de-motivated by the behavior I see on here but then remind myself why I am here and what I am committed to.  My goal is to be a poster that makes a difference...to bring areas of knowledge that people who read what I write do not have.

I want to make money like everyone else although I have no complaints about what I have gotten thus far (or at least I should have no complaints).

Thanks you for your kindred spirit of maintaining optimism and that we are bigger than the challenges that are in front of us.  If 10,000 people get together and focus on making this place the best if can be, it will create an incredible outcome.  

In the overall scheme of things, that isnt that big a number.

Fight or flight syndrome, it hits and we react. I am sure it was a hard thing for  @snowflake to write. And it has gotten even more people talking, and discussing one of the issues that many have here on steemit.