RE: Beginning To Lose Motivation On Steemit...
All due respect but I think you're looking at it from the wrong angle. If you know the philosophy and system behind that pyramid you posted you will understand that that system is the result of criminally consolidating wealth and political influence over centuries and using PR to make people believe that this consolidation and influence is make believe.
Point is the system is based on control and manipulation by a seemingly malevolent group dressed in the superficial benevolence of human rights organizations, save the planet, feed the third world and all the other bullshit - all criminal extortion rackets.
Now Steemit on the other hand is a perfect mechanism for price discovery free from invisible hands, unfair competition and manipulation of environmental variables. What seems to you as being unfair, distorted or opaque is merely a market mechanism which can, and in my opinion will, work for billions and is designed to do just that. It's just that you can't expect it to work flawlessly from day one with what 20.000, 50.000, 100.000 participants? The market is in its infancy. Besides there might be value where you don't see any. I don't have a japanese hiking boot fetish so I'll probably never roam around posts dealing with that but I'd never assume that it has no value just cuz I don't care for it.
So give it some time and patience, ignore the numbers and the payouts and focus on what's important to you, what you're good at, where you can add value! In the end you will get the reward. If you don't you've at least learned what people don't want to see. As someone mentioned, the market decides who comes out on top and THAT is exactly what free market capitalism is all about.
That system has always worked wherever it was applied through the price discovery mechanism and will work on here. Just cuz it's got a bad rep due to some people incapable of fathoming that they've never spent a day in their lifes in markets that are NOT manipulated (anyone born from about the late 1800s onward) does not mean it doesn't work :).
Sorry to go off on a tangent here, you tapped into my anaracho capitalist, free market, price disco emotion.
Rock on and you got my vote!
Appreciate the kind words and your time on writing this. I understand what youre saying and I do believe in the platform and I understand that the market determines everything which is fantastic and its definely a long process. Im just venting because its definitely frustrating at the beginning for sure which is where im at. I will continue to post on this platform in lieu of facebook because I find it informative and constantly growing my knowledge.
Mind you it is absolutely possible that control on this platform will be or maybe already has been centralized as well which would enable a small number of users who own enough of the stake to decide which posts get promoted to the front page, receive the most money, etc.
In that case it would be up the community to confront and overcome that or walk away. My point is it's up to the community to play along and shape the platform just like in the 'real world'. The difference to other platforms is there exists this price discovery mechanism that has a reputation/experience weighting built in which is great - and also opens the door for consolidating control.
Seems we're all in one very large experiment.