Nobody's going to be the sucker forever.
I often wonder when I'm going to give up. I have refrained from everything that is not pure manual curation. I don't delegate to bots and I don't use them. I don't want to turn into a greedy individual that squeezes out the last bit of it. But being the last idiot in the desert doesn't feel good. The last couple of months it feels like I'm always searching for like minded people in this vast greedy ocean. It shouldn't be like this and I'm convinced that with decent governance it wouldn't be like this.
Other than Steem, my favourite project that unfortunately is still in WIP is Tauchain. That thing is expected to be able to scale discussion and consensus (just a small part of it) and it could make peer to peer discovery easier and more effective. It’s okay to maximise your benefits, we are just proposing the elimination of the trolley problem so nobody has to feel like a sucker haha