I can pretty much guarantee that management will never go for this idea (the very notion of forced wealth redistribution makes any good capitalist cringe) but nevertheless, there are some important points in here and you've given us all some good food for thought.
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Well, it's either this or burning Steem from Steemit account. Synereo and other decentralized platforms are damned clear on their priorities of being decentralized. Decentralized platforms will outstrip centralized ones. This is just a future reality trend. Addressing this now would be the smart thing to do. Waiting would be foolish.
Yeah, a burn seems like a smarter approach than redistribution. The former would be objective and hopefully push the value of Steem up. The latter is too subjective. It would really suck being number 1001 when two more upvotes would have pushed to 1000. :)
Yes, true, perhaps a burn is the best way. This is a good discussion, to see many different viewpoints.
That's an interesting idea. Burning that much would certainly strike a blow against inflation...
The thing is, another platform has already done it. It's not even a theoretical idea.
So what are the other Steemit-like platforms around? Synereo...any others?
It would be fallacious to look at it in a socialist way. The redistribution principle would be to increase value of the platform and retain customers. Steem-miles.
Many whales call themselves anarcho-capitalists which is a complete paradox. You cannot be both. They are pretty much capitalists who do not want to pay taxes, want to keep hoarding their property and wealth for themselves and be left without any state inervention.
Since the word anarchy literally just means "without rulers" you can easily be both... but I don't find it to be a very useful label so I don't use it myself. It just comes with too much baggage and introduces confusion where it need not be. Easier to just say that I'm a capitalist and leave it at that. If someone wants more detail, I can go on about how I'm the sort that has no interest in having the state rob anyone on my behalf... but over the years, I found these little debates to largely be a waste of time unless it's between two people that care about one another and are genuinely interested in exploring their differences of opinion together... always best to do it in person too, if at all possible.