"I was gone for awhile, came back and noticed the art scene died out a bit. Plenty of folks were getting downvoted for being successful, doing a good job, or earning on a platform that pays people. "You're earning too much," they'd say. So these artists just go tokenize their works and sell them now for hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars, on another platform."

I 100% agree with this. My personal belief is that we can't make everyone agree that some things are valuable and somethings aren't. To your example, a great artist might spend 5 days painting something beautiful, post it on Hive with a short caption and get downvoted because it's deemed "low quality".

Whereas the LEO equiavelent of an art community would see this post, understand the work that it took to create the art and reward it heavily in their native token. No Hive police to tell them otherwise.

"Hive is like a mall; LEO is one of the shops inside the mall."

This is a good example. They would indeed struggle to get off the ground without Hive's main layer of rewards - depending on how they operate. Though, if the signup process is easy and the "shops" are smart in how they market their token to new users, then I do not think it's impossible. The current state of infrastructure requires that users jump through a million hoops in order to get started. We've made a lot of changes to the https://leofinance.io homepage and "Get Started" process aimed at solving this issue specifically but this is no easy task and Hive's main layer of rewards definitely makes it easier to get off the ground.

"Typically, in a mall setting, the security wants to kick out those chasing away the customers. For some odd reason, on Hive, with these strange disagreement with rewards disputes, the 'security' is chasing away the money/customers. I think her name is Karen. Should probably be fired."

🤣 this is both true and sad. I hope it changes, but I won't sit around and wait for it either. The only thing I can speak for is that LeoFinance tries to invite people in as opposed to chase them away. No Karens up in here.

Thank you. My goal has always been to bring in thousands of new users to this blockchain ecosystem that I've been a part of for so long. 16 months of work on LeoFinance and we're seeing a lot of progress, but much work left to be done.

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