My Research And Observation!
I am writing this short post after doing some research about a trend that I have been noticing from the last few weeks and most of you are already aware of that selfish behavior of some people here! I first thought for an hour if I should write this post or not. May be I will receive some welcoming flags just because of I am sharing what I think and after a lot of thinking process, my inner asked me to write it after censoring some parts of it, so let's go!
Buying Upvotes And Some Confessions to Make!
I'll straight come to the point without wasting a second and obviously without mentioning the culprits names. So while talking to
@sharoonyasir on Discord today, I noticed an account with a reputation score of xx. I first assumed that he belonged to my country and I was correct in my assumption. Full of curiosity, I read his posts that had some high payouts. Curiosity overloaded and I read his last 5 posts. To be honest, the content was just fine but the pending payouts weren't aligning with the type of content written. Being a silent researcher, I went to his wallet and there I saw a bitter truth behind these huge payouts. Yes, you are right! That person was using bots! Okay, I am not totally against using bots to buy upvotes, I myself used them when I was a newbie, sending 5 to 10 SBDs to get some good positive ROI on my time investment but yes, I decided not to use them 3 months ago and since then, I am clean. In the first three or four months, I was using this platform from an investment point of view but after that, I decided to use it as a normal human being! Another thing, the price of SBD at that time was around $0.9 to $1, not $5 - $5.5, so now you get an idea what I am trying to say!
Coming Back To That Person't Wallet
So, I saw some huge huge transactions being made to buy upvotes! Not 5, 10, 20 SBDs, that person is buying upvotes by sending 50/55 SBDs. My first reaction was
OMG and as usual, being an accountant, I did some calculations. The market price of Steem Dollar is around $5.31, multiplying it with 55, we get $292.05. Converting it into PKR, it's approximately equal to PKR 32,710 and I was speechless!
This amount is approximately equivalent to 55% of the total salary I get after each month! Doing some in-depth analysis now, an average Pakistani like the security guard of my company earns PKR 10,000 per month, this money could feed 3 families in my country! With this money, I don't the exact number but many children could go to schools who currently aren't able to do so due to poverty! Adding to above, the basic necessity,
Food, average daily eatable food costs you around PKR 150 to PKR 200 in Pakistan let's take the maximum figure and do some calculations!
32,710/200 = 163.55
It means that with this amount of money, around 164 poor people can get food or one person can get this food for 164 days!
Why Do I Do This?
I want to become a Whale asap!
I want to increase my reputation score asap!
I want more engagement and in return getting more and more followers!
I don't care what's happening outside, it's my money and I can use it in whatever way I want!
Once I become a Whale, I will help minnows with my Mega Upvote Worth!
Once I become a Whale, I will go to the moon to promote Steemit!
And Bla Bla Bla
Closing Note
I am not the right person to suggest and force anyone to adopt the right approach, everyone on this planet is different but what I can do is to show both sides of the coin. One is to become a greedy, selfish person who always thinks about his profit and to maximize his ROI, an abnormal corporate approach we see in our daily life. Second one is quite different, long term and a win win situation, you help others and in return, you get help too! This is what I call
Gift Economy Revolution, a system where you along with fulfilling your needs look for others who also need someone's help! And this is not what we should be doing on Steemit, infact this is something to be implemented immediately outside of Steemit. I don't have to give you an idea about the situation of poverty we are currently facing especially in the third world countries where people are dying daily just because they don't have enough food or water to drink, there are many homeless persons who sleep on streets and children who aren't going to schools because they have to feed their family from an early age. Steemit is the perfect platform where you can not only earn some decent income for yourself but you can also share your earnings with people inside and outside of this community! Luckily, I am now able to help some of my relatives that I had been thinking to do since I got my first job. I wasn't able to help them earlier due to some tight financial budgets but now, I earn some extra income and this is my responsibility to share my profits with those who need my help, people who were always there to help me and remembered me in their prayers!
That's It!
Love!
@ghulammujtaba
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Good stuff. Honestly, I have been thinking about using bots to get upvotes (I think I discussed with you as well). But you were right, we should focus on interracting with people, promote productivity and creativity ...
earning some $ is our secondary goal...
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Yes and let's implement what we planned in the office :P
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Haha sure (Y)
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please vote your brother this is sad kalini no one vote at home also no more food, please
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