What about addressing exact points in your post. For example "infulencers" getting promissed steem to post here.
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What about addressing exact points in your post. For example "infulencers" getting promissed steem to post here.
Do you mean giving Steem to people who can instantly market Steem and Steemit to a wider audience? I'm not aware that has happened. If it has, I'm not sure I have a problem with it.....it is reasonable to give shares to someone who can add value to your company isn't it? As far as I'm aware though, most 'influencers' have been invited to try Steemit out and their posts have been awarded by the community. If those rewards have seemed on occasion to be like golden handshakes, well their 'influence' has perhaps earned it. Steemit succeeds for us all and everyone in the future if people get to hear about it and get involved. Marketing Steem is very valuable. Crypto was going nowhere fast before steem and steemit, therefore the huge benefits of blockchain tech could never be realised by our broader societies. Anything that addresses that issue is worth a hell of a lot, especially with the world's economies in the state they are presently.
It totally does happen and has happened. There were alot of early post that said "dan invited me here" and it went to the moon. They can also do the exact same thing with out inviting them, they can watch the network effect of other content creators inviting their friends and only upvoting a specific audience, which they do, The "whales" are incredibly selective with who they create fomo with.
I think it is unfair to group all the whales together and i'm not sure what you mean by fomo. We can all agree that the steem economy will be better with a wide, diverse distribution of Steem across the world, in the hands of people that care about it's success. Wether you consider the present situation acceptable (given proper context) or not, don't you think distribution is improving?
FOMO == fear of missing out.
It is improving, but its still trickle down economics though and the whole system is dependent on gate keepers. Which is a stick in the eye to decentralization.
Massive whale create big whales who create medium whales who create small whales who may or may not bring minnows into their group. Its very reminiscent of the American social class/cast system and why social climbing is a thing. This is why people call steemit a ponzi. Its more a reflection of the american social system than ponzi but -shrug-.
The way I see it, if you give something to everyone for nothing, they will not understand or respect it's value and before you've had a chance to demonstrate utility, you are in an oversupply situation and boom. Black swan, it's all over. The world is not a perfect place so things have to get going, then reach maturity and equilibrium. What does it matter if in 50 years time, Steem has solved the world's currency economic issues and ushered in a thousand years of relative fairness? The struggles we've had now will pale into insignificance. The technology has value, the experiment has value, people are extracting value they can use under the present paradigm right now and valuable content is being created now. It certainly cannot be described as a ponzi and if a culture or economic system where capital is flowing more rapidly and transparently from the top to the bottom exists, i'll eat my hat! ;)
Since the launch of Steem was done in a really shady way and the founders and their friends gained the vast majoirty of it you will never ever be able to get rid of this aspect of steemit. It will always be Dan and his buddies who decide what is one top. Do not be fooled, it is not organic, just organicly Dan. Do you think that these "famous" people would have just found steemit and spent time writing without being promised something? No. Which is in itself ok, if that is made clear in the post. It is basicly a paid blog post that is tricking everyone into thinking that it was done for free and everyone needs to reward them. Why reward them more when they are already getting paid lol. This can continue for a while untill there are not enough buyers for steemit on the markets, but since Mr. Dan designed the system for maximum bagholderism you can only dump slowly, as seen in the current chart.