I think we all need to cultivate more of an abundance mentality here. There are enough rewards to go around, and those who offer the most value will get them.
Nobody is entitled to any of the reward pool. I feel this is the problem here. Sadly in modern culture people are so spoilt that feel they have a right to something for nothing.
I do a little blogging, and I earn very little in upvotes, but I am happy and thankful for what I get. It's not my business to expect to make more at the expense of others who honestly deserve what they have been freely given by helping others so much.
I think all whales should be voting as much as possible, if they're not it means a lot of the reward pool is going unused. The more money is sloshing around the Steem ecosystem, the more big bloggers and content creators will want to come on board to get a piece of the pie. The quality of content competing for upvotes will balance out the distribution of rewards naturally.
It's the same as if Steemit was a country, we must make it a friendly environment for business, and for people who are rich and successful to live here without fear of personal attack. Otherwise they will leave, our country will become like North Korea or Venezuela, and we will starve.
If you were a celebrity, like a movie star, football player, a writer, or whatever, and you saw this behaviour, would you ever sign up to Steemit and face being treated like this?
I get your point. I really do.
I would love to see really famous people joining Steemit. Movie stars and whatever. That would be awesome and I believe that it can happen at some point. However, let's look at it from an average users perspective instead.
Would you stay at Steemit if you never got feedback and support?
I know we have different types of people on Steemit. Users have different "levels". We have minnows, dolphins and whales etc. However, I still believe it would be better for the platform to reward tons of people with something instead of a handful of people with everything.
That's the only thing I see as a problem. That some people are rewarding only 1 or 2 authors and ignore the rest of the Steemians.
I'm sorry but I cannot accept that. Even if you start from zero and you make an effort, post every day, use all your upvotes for curation, write lots of comments and replies, and power everything up, maybe put a bit of money in too, even if it's just a handful of STEEM here and there, you will grow very quickly.
How can anyone possibly say they haven't been given enough opportunity by this platform? What do other websites pay you? Nothing!
This is real life, it's competitive. You have to really work hard to be successful and get the big bucks, and not everyone is going to make it. I think lots of people are just lazy and entitled, and are having a tantrum like little spoilt children, trying to break another kid's toys. I'm sorry, that's how it is.
Yes, this is the crux of your argument, and an important point.
@hitmeasap is saying, that something other than the freest of free markets might help main stream adoption faster which might help us all more in the long run with token price.
Your points that any cent is a bonus, is very true too. It may not lead to main stream adoption though. I am loath to admit it, but main stream might be a bunch of whiners.
Hard work and effort. That's what it takes to succeed on Steemit and in life.
However, people would never stay as active Steemians without support or gratification... They could stay on Facebook and instagram for that.
People join Steemit for the money. For the opportunity they have. They can earn money.
That is why I personally believe, it's better for Steemit as a community to spread the reward. A little bit of rewards to tons of people rather than a huge slice of the pie to just a handful of authors. That's what I believe is for the best.
Thanks for the great discussion!
Thank you too! I'm honestly not trying to be antagonistic, jut venting a little I guess. I appreciate the discussion too!
I agree generally with your points, but this point is a misunderstanding about how the ecosystem works.
There are X number of rewards. These are divided up amongst the claims on the reward pool. Claims are processed by Voting Power (based on Steem Power and frequency) of upvotes.
If all whales voted, there would not be more money, your upvotes would just be worth less.
This is the math of how the system was designed.
Thank you for clearing that up, yes I guess you're right. If the whales aren't voting then the voting pool is still the same just spread among more users.
I don't know, it's a hard one to call. I definitely accept your points. I agree on fair and equal distribution, but I also think it's important to reward the superstars. Personally, I'm in this for Steemit to become the next Twitter or Instagram, where it goes without saying that every big celebrity has to have an account.
If that happened then the price would blow up so fast that any amount of Steem rewards would be worth a lot. The pennies that people are getting now would become dollars.
Maybe there should be a sliding scale letting authors decide what proportion of payouts to accept, on a voluntary basis, like there is with upvotes? That way if someone is really successful they can choose to only accept a portion of their rewards. Right now it's all or nothing.
Still, I think we need to learn to celebrate wealth here. You never get rich by hating the rich, or money.
YES!
This is the scenario of long term sustainability. I also think this platform has room for other use cases outside of social media. Steemit is awesome, but I think Utopian might be even more powerful. And I think we haven't even scratched the surface.
But the key crucial point in this is we need to buy up SP. We need to demand more of it. Bring more people on. Expand our stakes. Expand the use-case. Steem will only get better the more we use it.
Imagine a world with $10,000 dollar steem where every steempower gives a 1 dollar upvote or more!
We will only get there if this is a positive community. Attacks and bullying can never be tolerated. That comes first, arguing over money is second. We all need to stand up together and say no to that whenever it happens.
It could easily be us any day, and who will help us then?
I've always been advocating people to buy Steem and Power Up from the beginning. That's taking personal responsibility for the equal distribution of power and rewards here.
Oh, also note that you can cancel the power down. I almost did this today. I think I'll wait a few days, or perhaps, get a single payout first so I know how that works.