If someone doesn't fix the problem, there will be alternatives.
Steemit is the first of its kind, but i'm sure not the last.
Different tokenized social media will play out different strategies to reward and attract users - mostly through an 'attention economy' model.
The trouble with this model, is that the more network collateral a user has (in Steemit's case SP) , the greater their vote. If there was a fairer distribution then there would be a fairer reflection of value.
I can see in the future a network where user's are rewarded only for contributions, and it will be impossible for people to just buy their way to whale status. It would have to be earned through post and interactions, therefore creating a real community vibe, led by 'elders'.
What you say is true, and how the various populations interacting on Steemit, and potential to such platforms, advance their interests, will continue to mold it's evolution.
Given that Steemit and Steem were devised by parties with expertise in coding and capital, far more than politics and social sciences, it is likely that the current tension between society and economy is going to continue to reflect that bias in it's constitution.
I have long advocated for essential changes in VP on Steemit, and the more powerful of those on the platform recognize that the platform they seek to make faces existential threat from such changes, because their expertise is in the economic reality. They are biased, as incapable as any of us in holistically viewing reality, and stick to what they know, which is how to make money.
An effective synthesis of politics, social science, and economics is scarce as hen's teeth, and yet such a platform will eventuate, whether it is Steemit or not, because such a platform will outcompete rival mechanisms.
As an innovation consultant, I have seen how disparate proficiencies can develop syncretic evolution in technology, with nominal infrastructure, and the clear goal to so do. I have yet to see such collaboration arise on this platform, although various enterprises have sought to mitigate and compensate for the lack of such a holistic social synthesis as potentiated by social media and cryptocurrency based economic infrastructure.
Such a transformation won't be led by finance, celebrity, or academia, but by programmers, who are often enlisted to craft disparate fields into functional applications. Indeed, the extant platform is the result of such talents being brought to bear, albeit with limited practical experience in the political or media fields.
The imbalance of forces in Steemit reflects the expertise of the founders, who were technocrats.
While expertise in social science is clearly what is necessary to rejigger the platform into greater functionality, the sad truth is that politics is the domain of psychopaths, and power to effect a society of just and free people as welcome as a fart in an elevator among those with the most expertise.
Political skill is not lacking, it's just being effected for the purposes of aggrandizing those in possession of it, rather than altruistically.
I have no expectations this is going to change any time soon.
Right on!
Are you suggesting all users must be "performers/actors/writers" ?
My view is for each "actor" you need 100 or 1000 "viewers/spectators"
or what is the point in putting on a 'show' ?
Im not suggesting that at all - im just saying that there will be alternative systems which solve problems of unequal distribution of voting power in the future systems.
In the example I give, maybe a casual viewer would get a vote worth 1%, while someone who has contributed 100 posts would get a vote worth 10%.
Ok I see your point.
I was thinking that 80% of "reward pool" should be shared by the "audience"
the "actor" gets only 20%, but earns from volume.
and either voting bots are banned &/ or only 1 account / person.
At the moment is it the same as MSM where a few at the top own & control the flow of info & $$. Steem could be different, and give 'power' to the base / mass. But that means a look at the problems. (whales/bots / PC enforcers etc)