That's why Steemit will never become a true competitor to Facebook.
People with lots of money can easily make more money while people with no money struggle.
Human nature brings more greedy people than helping people.
Good content loses visibility very quick.
Subscription numbers mean nothing when people don't use Steemit.
And there's no incentive for the people who can do / decide something to change it because they already get more money.
EDIT:
I appreciate the work you do with your manual voting instead of automation. A fair amount of the bots gave a negative ROI the last couple hours and I think your voting is better (except when the market crashes but that happens...)
But yeah Steem feels like a cow where only the strongest and most reckless people can milk it. And no changes in sight...