By "giver" I mean someone who adds value to the community and/or token. An investor is one example, and I gave many others in my post.

I don't think there are any "rules about getting paid" on Blurt, and I'm not suggesting any be created. I'm in favour of free markets and individual liberty.

We have a lot of users here who don't upvote anyone but themselves, giving all their spam comments 100%, and selling the profits. This drains the reward pool. It also drives down the token price. We also have people like me who have brought more than $20000 to this platform, and put in 2.5 years of full-time content creation, and have never pulled anything out. In fact, if I was to need my money back right now, it would only amount to $3000. Meanwhile, many users here have cashed out thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. Hundreds, in the case of the insiders at the top. Where did all that come from? It came from the givers.

You can talk about general macroeconomic theory all you want, but THAT is how Blurt works. Money pours in, "BLURT tokens" are handed out by the millions, then insiders (and a few farmers etc) withdraw the money.