for a project that claims to be a humanist social network project.
Uh-oh. Did anyone really say that about steemit?
Steemit is a complete, radical free market system. It took me about 4 minutes to understand that when reading about it.
And what is that 50/50 split about?
It was tongue-in-cheek, of course, and satire for all those cheerleading posts about how Steem will reform society and change lives.
50/50 split is a proposal that 50% rewards will go to authors, 50% to curators. Currently, 75% authors 25% curators.