Each to their own, why is investing your KMD into GPU's for mining more KMD better than someone else investing their KMD to get a notary node any way they can? I don't get the sour grapes attitude, other than stock standard crypto jealousy of guys with bigger stacks.

Tech guys would obviously like to get voted in based solely on their skills and reliability, but what other decentralised crypto do you know of that works that way? Every crypto I know of either sells coins in ICO's, or let's people mine them with hardware, or uses some form of staking, so expecting something different with kmd is naive. Lisk, Heat, WAVES, XLM, Ardor all offer pools of some sort for small holders to earn some money, Komodo notary is difficult to setup but many can do it, so pools for notaries looks inevitable, why on earth would that be a bad thing? Wouldn't it be good to share notary profits, at least not complain that it is somehow 'unfair'?

notary nodes are a monopoly by design, it's a good system to ensure good operators, and running one isn't anyone's right unless jl777 says so. How someone gets a notary is not important, call it buyìng votes if you want, but I agree with P-Trump that there are monopoly profits here, and who gets them is best left to the market.