First of all, I've just recently added you to my auto-list. I did this because I want to reward your content, even in case I miss it. I still love manual curation, but auto-votes makes things a little bit easier.
That being said, I have started to think about certain aspects of greed/selfishness and peoples true beliefs and intentions with STEEM in general.
Let me explain some of it. You said this:
" They are the ones who really stand to benefit from this platform, but I think it can help people all around the world."
"I am asking that the dolphins and above give a bigger share of their votes to small accounts who make cents on a post. Okay, so you will earn less in curation, but do you really need it?"
So, what I've started to think about, is why so many people are stacking STEEM like crazy people...? I obviously understand that more SP equals more money, especially if and when the price of STEEM goes up.
However, whales and orcas, usually the people who're talking about how much they care and believe in STEEM... They continue to rake in STEEM with investments and whatever, because they believe in STEEM. They believe that STEEM will go to the moon and that we will see prices of $10, $50 and even $100 per STEEM...
But, if you have 200K+ STEEM and/or 1 or 2 million... Do you really need more, if you truly believe that the price will go up?
If you have 200,000 STEEM and the price goes up to $10. You'll have $2 million USD. $100 per STEEM and you'll have $20 million USD...
Honestly speaking, I shouldn't say that I've started to doubt these users real intentions and beliefs, but it sure has made me somewhat skeptical.
200,000 STEEM is just an example though. Say 500K instead. It doesn't really matter... I personally, believe in STEEM, but I cannot afford to invest thousands of dollars. I am in a position where I will need to cash out in the coming months... But people who never cash out and only power up... Do they really need to make as much as possible from their 200K+ STEEM stake they have today, if they truly believe that STEEM will moon?
Sounds like greed to me, and I will never allow greed to control me or my actions. I find it disgusting.
How about an update that makes anyone above 250K SP (or whatever) lose 10% of their stake monthly if they don't spread their wealth? -Should give us a tremendous growth in general. :D
I know some people invested many thousands when the Steem price was much higher and so they are operating at a loss for now. The acquisition of wealth is an end in itself for some, but it does not particularly interest me. My Steem was worth almost $100k at one point, but as it fell I was not that upset as I made it all here and so did not actually lose anything.
I think there are some crypto coins where the value does fall if you hang onto them.
I am not against people making money, but we need to give back a bit if we want to see Steem succeed. For now it is touch and go.
That's a good point. An even better point, to me personally, is the fact that some people are trying to recover their losses so to speak. I totally understand that and didn't think about it when I wrote the comment.
I was basically just thinking that having 1 or 1.1 million STEEM wouldn't be such a big difference to me, if the price reached $100 USD. lol
I totally agree with you though, that we need to give back more. Did you see/watch @theycallmedan's post yesterday? About 50/50 rewards? I find it interesting. The comments brings a ton of value too.
I'm not entirely sold on the idea of 50/50 rewards, despite all the comments about how awesome it would be... But it sure sounds both interesting and promising. What do you think about it?
Obviously 50/50 is good for those with a lot of SP to curate with. I'm not convinced it is the answer.
I think 50/50 would be horrible and benefit the rich even more then the current systems. They will not stop selling votes, instead they will earn 50% curation on the votes they sell. It doesn't solve anything other then locking in more profits for those with massive amounts of SP.