I agree, many of the top trending posts are of extremely low quality with no effort put into them, yet make a $100. This is a joke and is not in the interest of growing a strong high quality platform.
It's time to restructure the Steem Governance and some of its other features. The current "community witnesses" are not the people to do that.
An Oligarchy will never represent the people.
Yes, this is exactly what I wanted to point out. Thanks for Helping in the Explanation...