Oh yes, most of us know that feeling! :) Someone tries to do something they feel is very positive, a benefit to STEEMIT, and not even one Whale will give it a little boost - this makes one feel as if something is very wrong in the STEEMIT UNIVERSE. It is not only about the money (although that feels nice!), it is what it does for your work in the eyes of other users - they feel confident that their upvote is going to something worthy - when a post lingers and dies at the sub-$2.00 level, people will think it was lacking for some reason, and most often will not bother to examine the contents.
Circumstances have changed in recent days, with the value of STEEM fallen well below $1.00 - The Whales must be starting to worry about how long they are going to be Whales, because their entire eco-system feels as if it is in jeopardy. I don't know about you, but STEEMIT SPIRIT seems to have fallen significantly as well.
We can always just give up and walk away right? The thing is, we will be the only one that loses if we do so .. unless this happened en masse, it would not be noticed - I do believe if things do not change this is a very real possibility - many will just throw in the towel, and they will not have good things to say about STEEMIT upon their exit, which will deter new users.
The alternative is to stay, and continue fighting to be heard - move forward and do whatever we can, with whatever we have, with whatever blessings we receive.
WE MUST DO JUST THAT!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@dutchpainter/steemit-has-a-governance-issue
Is the price fall something that looks permanent or more like Bitcoins rises and falls?
I would love to say that it is temporary, or cyclic, but that's not the case. You see, the designers attempted something here that was tried once before in history, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The International Monetary Fund looked at the situation and asked, "How do we shock this society into becoming a free-market based, Capitalist system?" They looked to history themselves and decided that concentrating economic power in the hands of a small group of individuals, who were to act as benefactors - their activity would stimulate the overall system, from the top-down.
Well, that didn't happen, and it is not happening here. :-)
The desired outcome here, was that people would see the benefit of having a lot of STEEM Power and buy as much as they possibly could, thus infusing the system with a lot of high value STEEM - but instead, due to the behaviour of The Whales, who are exhibiting serious bias - people see this, and they are pissed off, refusing to invest until this is remedied.
Very well thought out analogy. Upvoted your post!
Well said! You must have seen my post!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@proglobyte/the-whales-are-oligarchs-the-trickledown-experiment-has-failed
I hadn't really thought about this from a dolphin's point of view. Being a minnow with only a cursory one-time glance from a whale, I don't take being ignored personally. But for those who used to enjoy favor, it must be very disheartening. It's always been my hope that a more diverse, competitive group of minnows would eventually alter the whales' environment into something more resembling an ecosystem you might actually find in nature.