RE: That Idea of 'Removing' the Hive Rewards Pool

To simplify: there are people on Hive who are not happy with people like us being rewarded in Hive or HBD, but want to put us on Hive community coins of some kind (take for example, LEO, Neoxian, Luv, and many more) that we will then have to swap through Hive to get back to Bitcoin, which is spendable around the world because it links to so many national coins people spend to deal with their LIVES.

The problem is, the community tokens are only as solid as the people running them, whereas Hive is established and the chain itself does the work in getting the value to content creators. You do your work, the community votes it, you receive your reward and take it and do what you need to do. That's how it's supposed to work. That's the promise that drew most people here. The idea of breaking it is utterly ridiculous. I've already had my experiences with these community coins -- I will name names and tell stories if put to it, with all the mass communication skills I have -- they are only as good as the people running them, and I am increasingly convinced many of them are of the same profit-focused, colonial mindset that presumably Hive is supposed to be a refuge from. I will not, as a descendant of those cruelly enslaved Africans who built the United States without being compensated, stand for Hive changing to just another version of the legacy of the exact same abomination. I will not stand for the high and mighty here, playing with people's lives so they can hoard the value of Hive for themselves while teasing us with their play money!