There is no valid reason for the vast majority of what is supposedly a currency to be owned by the company that created it. Imagine if PayPal launched but required everyone to transact in fractional shares of PayPal to get anything done. Oh and by the way, those shares are majority owned by the founders, but they’ll sell you some so you can send them to your friends.
This is ridiculous.
What value do you provide? at least when I buy vbucks from Epic I know I'm getting fortnite skins with it.
Why should we run a node free of charge when you extract all the profits of our efforts?
When I see statements like "there's no economic incentive."
I read "I want all the profits, and screw everyone else".
If you genuinely wanted a decentralized network, then you would provide fair compensation for the added value the node provides against attacks on the network.