I Have Been Waiting For This Hard Fork For Almost A Year. Equality Has Finally Become Our Reality!

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It Has Arrived. Hard Fork 19!

I used to have serious doubts if this moment would ever come, when minnows finally become empowered. At some point, I became disenchanted and abandoned Steemit. I was frustrated seeing so many minnows (many that I met at SteemFest) who are great content creators being either unappreciated or exploited by many powerful users from whale minority (not all of them, of course).
I got my hopes back few weeks ago after I learnt about the new agreement between whales to stop circle jerking each other and their friends and distribute more of their Steem Power towards less powerful or new users. Then, I decided to come back after six months and try again. I was positively surprised by new changes. It appeared that Steemit, as social experiment, was finally heading towards becoming much more equal around its users. With today's hard fork, the next step towards more equal platform has become consolidated in code and has become reality.

Equality = Happiness = New Users = Media Attention = Growing Popularity and Prosperity of Steemit (it is that simple).

Many users used to criticize a lot of that short term, quick buck-focused thinking of many whale investors/users and their attitude of circle jerking which only created growing frustration or even anger between less powerful users, especially new ones. The existence of Steem Power-based "class stratification" between users (division between those powerless and meaningless minnows and wealthy elite of whales) also incentivized a lot of unhealthy behavior between minnows, such as spread of sycophancy, false interest or dishonest appreciation.
Improving equality in social systems (Steemit is a type of proto social system designed around the application of certain technology - cryptocurrency) is directly proportional to the increase in overall happiness of all members of the system, and has many long term positive consequences. The happiness between users attracts more new users and media attention, so popularity and prosperity of the whole platform grows day by day. It means that both investors and/or content creators benefit from growing equality .

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Minnow Power!

Minnows! Please, go and upvote other minnows!
Share and reciprocate your power to make other users happy!
Please, be generous with your votes and give others 100% upvotes. Don't be afraid of having your SP going even as low as 50%.

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