Fairness

I've always been a proponant of fairness if I can help it.

Maybe it's cause I have a background of having travelled quite a bit when I was younger, or maybe cause I was a bit different to others growing up, or maybe cause I like to think I have common sense when it comes to it. Maybe I'm just a "communist" or "socialist" or whatever people wanna label others these days to make themselves feel like they're winning an argument about fairness.

But things aren't always fair.

I'm sure there's some people on hive that work way harder than I do on things and that doesn't mean they're earning the same amount I may be doing these days, at least in terms of hive coins. I'm also sure there's some who are earning more than me but doing way less. It's hard to determine fairness and maintain it.

As a curator I've always attempted to execute fairness in the way I approach things. Sure there's a lot of requirements and things I look at before deciding on how much to reward their post/comment or vote on their proposal/witness and I'm sure I also judge them based on things I see that maybe others haven't or wouldn't notice or just don't care about - we're all human after all, biases and judgements are natural. But matter of a fact is that I don't really care where you're from or what your religion or political stance or gender or age is when I curate stuff. This is something I've tried to maintain because I believe it acts in favor of fairness, something we lack in the world and the old economy.

Why are there kids working in sweatshops in third world countries while the CEO's of the companies selling those products make millions per year?

I was lucky enough to be born somewhere where I had quite a normal childhood although quite unique.

I usually don't like talking too much about my past or make things too personal, partly cause I don't wanna give away too much information about myself online but partly also cause it may give away my identity if I say too much for whoever is curious enough to research. Maybe one day I may change that on block #300 million or something.

Do you take these things into account when you vote for users on hive? I mean you are practically deciding how much value to give to people based on your own criteria's, whether selfish or not, whether you're thinking it through properly or not. I'm pretty sure most casual hive users don't even know where the rewards come from.

I'm not trying to make myself sound like a greater being with high morals. I've done shitty things on Hive as well.

This thought came to me as I was recently discussing some things with a few friends and they were recommending me to look into AI coding to help with a few things with one of my projects, if anything to make things cheaper which was the thing that got me interested.

When it comes to artwork I would never agree to AI because I know that artists generally aren't the people who are spoiled and earn well, etc, but the same thing doesn't relate to developers - they're quite well off so I wasn't feeling too bad about that scenario. I.e. taking some work hours away from some of our devs in the project and replacing it with AI generated work that's way cheaper.

Fairness came to mind there in multiple ways. Is it fair that I can spend an hour writing this post and interacting with people about it or other things and receiving $10 for it while a developer gets 5x that in half the time? Did I not put in just as much effort? Did my post encourage others to think about things in a different light, maybe rethink some other things in their life, or change some habits they may have here on hive, etc. What was the outcome of this post to other people, how did it affect them, etc. Was $10 in mostly autovotes a fair payment considering my history, consistency, roles, footprint, etc, but a developer gets $100 to copy-paste 90% of code and call it a day.

Okay, I may not be thinking about this fairly and naturally I'm not pointing a finger at all developers, not even the ones working on my projects really. Maybe a better comparison would've been an artist and a developer, but even there the artists would probably get better pay if it's a request which is kind of the same ask of the developer. You're requesting them to do something for you specifically.

Dunno, AI seems to be unstoppable and in a way I'm excited as to what I can start telling it to build for me and see it come to fruition before I've had time to finish my coffee. I'm also excited as to what we, creative people on Hive, will be able to build with it once it becomes so easy and seemless that we don't need to rely on 5 other devs in 3 different continents to work together and synergize and make sure they milk you for all they can before finally shipping the product you've been dreaming about.

In a way developers can also be artists I guess. AI is after all working on code that's been done by someone for the first time once and made to work, similar how Art AI is copying off of people who've gone way and beyond to master their craft and publish their works, many who were probably underappreciated and not doing too well financially but marching on with the passion they have for it. Here too it could be that AI has mostly just copied opensource work that some devs have done as a hobby and shared it with the world for free.

Anyway, not sure where I'm going with this anymore. I don't even really think most of my posts have a well thought-out meaning or a way to wrap the whole story up, maybe they deserve less than $10. Then again what is $10? is it $9 tomorrow? can it be $100 in a year from today?

I'd like to think the world may become fairer over time. Not necessarily due to AI. I do hope this technology that we have somehow made all about getting rich quick or scamming your friends comes back into a focus where we try to do good with it and some out there realize there's this one little project that's been giving 65%+ of its inflation to regular people all this time instead of 100% to miners, stakers, validators, etc.

I think it'd be fair for Hive to get some attention eventually.

Thanks for reading anyway, maybe it brought something to you and was worth it.