Good post.

Another problem with the bid bots, for users, I explained a while back in my post about Popularity is that bid bot post rewards create a false sense of wealth, actually leading to an addictive wealth depleting spiral. By spending current rewards on promoting posts that will take 7 more days to pay out, none of that money gets to ever be kept. It is always being paid to someone else. People are so dumb, they are using their hard earned (nevermind the inflated bot rewards) curation and author rewards, and giving it away to a greedy, self-serving, enslavement bots.

Anyway, I like the wisdom in this post. Explaining good values, ethics, and morals to people who participate in community deteriorating shortcuts seems like such a waste of breath to me. The only way to stop them seems to be to pass laws and enforce them so they end up behind bars, or pay back what they have unfairly taken to those affected.

By the way: Thank you @trufflebot for leading me to this post. A great topic to read about.