Bullies Don't Buy, They Take... .:. WorkerBee PH-Pool Week 254
I suppose that any person who can objectively look at the past will come to the same conclusion as this title... On the other side, you will have people who will never accept any responsibility for their acts and deny that they did anything wrong... However, that's how things work nowadays, and always have. "Your rights end where mine begin."
So, let's talk about another controversial topic today and try to connect the dots...
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Before going into it... This photo is taken on the shortest day(light) of the year... Finally, we are going more toward the light... 😀
Unfortunately, most of the (financial) wealth in the world was built by exploiting someone else... Being an entrepreneur and businessman back in the days, I tried to do things differently, without knowing the principles... I remember the days when my workers had a bigger salary than myself... I followed the rule of the businessman's responsibility in good days and in bad days, without knowing that such a rule doesn't exist... When my company had bad days (running it in the middle of the 2008 crisis), I took the punches on myself and the company, trying to spare workers with lower salaries...
The truth is that it doesn't work like that... Those who pay the highest price of the financial crisis are exactly those at the bottom, while the rich at the top "delegate" responsibility to the poor... On the other side, when things are going great, those on the top have to "reward" themselves for doing a great job, taking responsibility, and of course, paying huge bonuses for that...
Now, imagine that someone comes trying to change these things that worked so great for you, as a business owner... You were floating nicely through crises, punishing others, while taking all hefty profits when things were doing great... Using all the tools that you can control, and having your money printer close to you, or your buddies...
Something new came, which can disrupt all that you built... You would try to ignore that, laser cut-out, stop it, block it, ban it! You don't want to share, you want the whole cake with you... Unfortunately, you can't stop it anymore, it looks like it's too good to be banned, it looks like it could actually help you too!!! But... You are late to the party...
Some crazy tech nerds were faster than you, over-smart you! Even the geeky neighbour who never had money for cigarettes bought a new fancy house in the best block! You are jealous, your ego can't stand that... But, hey... There is still time to do something about it... There are still tools that can be used to "exploit" things!
Rich people hate to be late, especially bankers... They want to be early, to be able to "resell" the thing, to make bigger margins, higher profits... If I want to buy seize something, I can pressure more... That's why we had most of the wars in the past... It wasn't because of the church, faith, or because the other tribe had a cow and ours didn't... It was because of the profit and money!
Similar things are happening today... Even in crypto... Government doesn't BUY crypto, they SEIZE it... Banks cut YOUR ways to buy crypto during the "chokepoint," disabling YOU to buy it, disallowing YOU to get an asset that can make you wealthy! What would it be if everyone were rich? How could I brag about my Lambo if everyone has it? How about my perfect house? Oh, you have the same... shit... I want it because YOU don't have it... And if you have it, I will have MORE!
But, but... I hate paying the higher price for it! Maybe we could dump it? Maybe we can print money and buy with it crypto, gold, precious metals... It's so easy to print, and someone else will pay the price for it... it always does... But not those who "own" the printer...
Let's see the WorkerBee Pool numbers for this week...
This week, we have mined 112 BEE tokens in total, 7 more than the week before! Still doing great!
This week, we didn't get new delegators! But we got some new delegations from old members, as usual! Thanks, guys! Appreciate your support!
This POOL doesn't have fees, and you get up to 20% MORE by delegating to it!
What about the bonus tokens?
Time to share some love for those who like HIVE gaming and music! Of course, we are back with sharing some STARBITS token, the official token of the Rising Star game! If I'm not wrong, this will be the record amount of them distributed to delegators of this pool! Regarding the price, it doesn't look as bad as it was before... Maybe the price is forming the bottom? We will see...
There will be distributed 5.7 million STARBITS tokens to the delegators of the pool as a bonus reward today!
5.7M STARBITS tokens will be distributed as a bonus... The APR (without the bonus) was 14.808%, and when we added the bonus, it went up to 17.804%!
I have calculated the ROI approximately with medium prices for all tokens when creating this post... So, those numbers are valid if you bought WB and sold BEE tokens at the middle HiveEngine price...
Do you want to sponsor the PH-Pool with your tokens, receive a short SPONSORED segment in this post, and raise awareness about your front-end or dApp? Please let me know in the comment section, or contact me through Discord or Twitter, and we will find the best solution for both parties...
If you want to join the WorkerBee PH-Pool, the only thing that you have to do is to STAKE tokens to YOUR account and DELEGATE your staked WORKERBEE tokens to THIS account (@ph1102)! Every week, you will get your portion of mined BEE tokens and BONUS rewards!
.:. DO NOT STAKE TOKENS TO MY ACCOUNT!!! Just DELEGATE! .:.
All payments will be made after publishing this post...
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comment section!
You can find more about this pool in the initial post here https://ecency.com/hive-119826/@ph1102/workerbee-p-h-ool-let-s-help-each-other.
Thank you for your time.
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I love your writing when you’re all worked up about something, @pH1102! The pace was incredible!!
This workerbee stuff is something I want to learn about when my brain has a moment to recover (well, actually it’s my face that has to recover 😂).
I’ll figure out what it’s all about before we all meet again in person in the Spring, right there in your neck of the woods!
I’m trying to get a big project finished before @bitterirony flies into London on Christmas Eve. It would be nice to take off for the long weekend.
You should receive your Hive Christmas Stocking tomorrow!
Merry Christmas!! 🎄
Thanks for your kind words... It looks like I'm doing the best when I rant... 😂
Regarding WORKERBEE, it's not that complicated, but it's not "too sexy" either... lol... You don't have to worry if you don't understand...
Can't wait for the next meetup... Thinking about doing a trip to London, but still trying to find an excuse... lol... 😂 Probably not before the Spring... :)
I will try to take a few days around Christmas... Hopefully, my screen-time-calculator will show less than 16 hours in those days... 😃
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So sad but also so true. But sometimes David can win against the goliath and I feel like we are winning in crypto but maybe just with Bitcoin at the moment. HODL!
I have no idea what my life would look like without crypto... I remember how it was before, but I suppose it would be much worse today... Constant chasing of the carrot...
It's safe to say nothing stops this train, as far as they own the money printers, they will keep printing money to enrich themselves without having done any valuable work to deserve it. With crypto, I think it has reached an escape velocity of sorts that their better option now is to join the train than trying to stop it.
The printer is going to print, that's for sure... However, without BTC, we had no chance of maintaining the printing pace... Not sure we have a chance to win, but at least we can stop falling behind...
Right, I think just having an alternative/options to not have money we hold/try to store get devalued overtime, maybe relatively quickly, than the past is already a great milestone reached :)
Good reading in the middle of the night!
Great post—thought-provoking and layered with both historical insight and personal experience!
You’ve highlighted a timeless tension: the imbalance between those who bear the weight of systemic failures and those who reap rewards while deflecting responsibility. Your reflection on running a business during the 2008 crisis—prioritizing your workers over yourself—shows a rare integrity that’s often missing in today’s profit-at-all-costs culture.
It’s also refreshing to see that ethical stance carried into your work with the WorkerBee Pool: no fees, bonus tokens, and genuine appreciation for delegators. In a space where exploitation is too common (even in crypto), your approach stands out as both sustainable and human-centered.
The rise of decentralized systems does threaten old power structures—and yes, the “latecomers” are scrambling. But communities like yours prove that wealth creation doesn’t have to come at someone else’s expense. Keep lighting the way… especially as we move toward longer days and, hopefully, fairer systems.
P.S. Congrats on the 112 BEE mined and that massive 5.7M STARBITS distribution! 🐝✨
Thanks for reading and your nice comment! Appreciate your kind words! 🙏
Regarding the WORKERBEE pool, it's kind of mutual benefit... Delegations help my H-E node to be in Top20, and organizing the pool, adding bonus tokens, + writing about WORKERBEE tokens in general is my giving back to the community... It's not a big deal, but thanks to these posts, I know that many learned a lot about WB, BEE, and H-E in general...
Cheers! 🍻
Thanks for the update!
There is only one way to ensure prosperity: move from the "poor" to the "rich." I don't believe in prosperity across the entire planet, only for some.
Here, I've been trying and trying for over a month to collect tokens for one Workerbee, but I still haven't gathered enough... 😵💫
Yeah, kind of a point that I made in the post... There will always be someone who is "richer"... But... On the other side, my personal mission isn't to get rich, but more to not get poorer... lol... 😂 With all the printing and inflation, that mission is getting harder and harder...
I agree, yes, there is always more money, but everything is then more expensive. Every such system eventually gets stuck in a loop.
It is great to see someone put their employees first instead of just focusing on making money, particularly when so many others don't do that.
Not sure if that was good or crazy... hahahahaha...
But, the moment when I felt I had been pushed into the "dark" side, was the moment that I quit... 😃
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Always nice to read that other people are aligned with my view!
Thanks for leaving the comment and your kind words! 🙏 🍻
I am not surprised. The rich and powerful keep getting richer. They want a cut of everything including crypto. I think that is why they made the BTC ETF. They get a cut out of it.
Thanks for running the pool and for the BEE/STARBITS
The issue is that it looks like some of the rich dudes are pissed off because they got too late to the party... Maybe that's the reason for so much manipulation with price lately, and this recent dump...
But, that can't last forever...
That's a lot of STARBITS thank you so much!
Hahahaha... It is a lot... Hopefully, it would be worth more in the future, if someone wants to speculate... I spend all my STARBITS back in the game doing lessons... 😃
Thanks for the update and tokens! Indeed the money printer is going on and on...
Hopefully, hodling crypto can help with keeping the pace with the printing...
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