Yes, however luckily this problem can be solved...
People respond to incentives
- We need to incentivize properly the activities which support the community...
- Increase curation rewards for high quality posts voted early, so that early high quality voting outweighs the benefits for voting for something trending...
- Create diminishing returns for trending/ Hot Posts..
There are plenty of options , as long as the community stays involved the problems can be resolved...
I am also a huge fan of the Universal Basic Income implementation for Steem based rewards system.
- Volf
Completely, unfortunately, the problem does not solve. Not everyone will want to search and read original articles - they will not be able to make money quickly. When an article is in a trend, the quality is often low - many users vote, because there is a large $. To change something, you need to change Steemit work system. That for all the laws were the same. But it is still impossible.