RE: Hi Steemit! Scott Santens here. If you've ever googled "basic income", you may have read something I've written.

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Hi Steemit! Scott Santens here. If you've ever googled "basic income", you may have read something I've written.

in introduceyourself •  8 years ago  (edited)

@ScottSantens welcome to Steemit. I have seen your work across the web going back some time. I do believe Basic Income will be a part of life in the near future. I leave figuring it out to the economists.

For me I abide by Pareto's Principle in everything I do. Whether it is here on Steemit or in my business. I recognize that some will and some won't and the ones who won't will far outnumber the ones that will.

I do like the idea of giving a portion of awards to everyone but I would add a caveat, "they would have to be active at some level".

So I am going to leave you with an adorable gif and upvote myself at 100% just like I did your post. I also resteemed your post.

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Thanks! I see nothing wrong with the caveat of some level of activity being required for a netizen dividend of any kind. I would compare that to the requirement of a pulse besides citizenship for an unconditional basic income. ;)

Question as a newbie here: what is the reasoning behind upvoting our own comments?

I am still not too sure how this all works exactly so hopefully someone else can explain it more accurately. From what i understand if you are the first to upvote and the post becomes popular you receive a higher proportion of the curator rewards than you would otherwise by being amongst the first to promote the post to others.