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RE: The Great Steem Debate: Berwick VS Sovryn - Steem Discussed for Hours on National Radio!
For someone to write or up-vote a post there IS work required. Subjective work (e.g. content curation, AKA up-voting, and creativity) is work too. Steem supports rewards for subjective and objective work, and from a blockchain perspective, the token supply operations are analogous.
I still use this explanation and it seems to work really well on newcomers that already know a little about bitcoin. It's super short and easy to understand. It's just prize money in a blogging competition instead of in a math problem-solving competition.