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by Tricky_Troll 740 days ago
>I'm less happy to pay someone a tax just because they are rich and they did barely anything.

As the operator of a single validator node you can get out of here with that take. I'm using up very significant bandwidth, having to keep a computer running 24/7, updating node and OS software, troubleshoot it after a power or internet outage and at some point I will have to replace the SSD since it is constantly reading and writing and will need replacing after a few years.

Is it a full time job? Absolutely not, but is it free from responsibility? Definitely not. If anything, I could be making more than 3%pa elsewhere if I weren't also in it for ideological reasons.