Ha!!@berniesanders, it's like you read my mind. But of course, you didn't have to, because lots of people are talking about this very issue.
I don't have enough voting power to make much of a difference. And I haven't been here that long. But even I can see two things:
- The unmediated pay-for-votes system has turned the trending page into the Shopping Channel. FYI, I don't think that's going to be great for growth. (Unless that was the plan all along).
- Lots of minows/plankton are getting pissed off when they perceive that the content getting big payouts is significantly more shithouse than what they are producing. Once there are enough of them (us - who am I kidding, you all know I'm one of them), and they figure out the right lever, things might get pretty interesting.
The whales/bots/bot owners have a lot of power; so much that people feel like there is nothing that they can do. But that's just here, on steemit. I mean FFS, even I have more twitter followers than @ned. Disgruntled plankton trying to level the playing field need to think outside the square and work out where else the biggest steem stakeholders are amenable to persuasion.
I know I am never getting rich on here, hell sitting at the bottom of the food chain the only thing I am guaranteed is plenty of exercise trying to out swim all the bottom feeders down here with me.
Indeed, I too can see this is unlikely to be my key to financial independence. But if I'm not going to make much money, I intend to not make much money doing something interesting, like trying to see if I can start a revolution amongst the underpaid majority of steemians.
lol, I don't know about starting a revolution but yeah I am not one not to voice my opinion out of fear. Even if you got people to do boycott a whales days or something it's only apparent most whales run more than one account, sock whale accounts...lol. I am going to follow you though, I might not get in all the dust ups but their may be a few I might feel compelled to add some backbone.