Steem Power: Delusions Of Grandeur & Gold Sickness
Steem Power is what gives you influence, right?
It's clear that SP has gone to some people's heads, dwarfing values and stunting community growth.
Engaging, contributing, and building with/for others is true influence. It's a matter of earning and leveraging respect. Wise people work together as this synergy fosters exponential growth. Great things happen when we don't put the cart before the horse.
These are Amish people if you're unfamiliar.
Some large holders assume they have "influence," but they have none in my eyes when it's all for themselves and their circle of goons. Watching them blog carefree about nonsense to self-vote makes my skin crawl. It's dumb money, and it's far dumber that they think they're fooling anyone into thinking that they're here to make this place better.
"Influence" today:
"Influence" in the future:
I've had many large holders challenge me to come up with a better system when I called them out on it. They trumpet that someone else must build a better system to cut off the greed and make it better for all. That's called gaslighting, foo.
Steem Power shouldn't be the sheep's clothing it often is for some transparent clowns. Tokens don't equal intelligence, talent or good intentions. Bad actors abuse it because they're greedy and they enjoy the power trip.
If you're going to rape the rewards pool, I'll respect you if you're open/honest about it and consistent, not two-faced. At least single-actors don't build up broader circles with the same lack of values to develop more goons.
We need more people like Dan who develops and retains the lifeblood of this community, who then propagate the generosity. It's not about giving people fish, it's about being the right example for others so the social responsibility compounds.
Thanks to those who do things the right way.
Thoughts cleared, back to my day...
@steemmatt
We here to make money brother!
But you are right as well, we need to make this a sustainable for all types of environment.
If people don’t win no one will win that’s for sure!
I was literally thinking about this same thing this morning... especially came to mind was a whale that was upvoting themselves and close family. Their argument was that they had invested a lot of money into the platform, and they needed to do that to make good on their investment.
It's such a short-sighted close-minded view. Firstly, there is mechanisms to 'save' your steem and get paid 9% interest annually. For anyone who has invested in mutual funds or real estate, 9% is pretty dreamy. Secondly, the main thing that Steem currently has going for it, better than any other crypto is it's community. It's literally only it's users that give the token any value at all... and so this toxic behaviour actually drives people away (what's the point when you can't compete fairly) which drives the value of their investment down. It's so crazy.
Steem could have the potential to have every creator and every blogger here... and therefore every content consumer... but it's those misusing the reward pool that are preventing that. If they were as generous and proactive as Dan, we would have passed a 1B valuation a long time ago.
I wish those whales would realize that they're gobbling up tokens that may be worthless in the long run if people don't adopt this platform, see success, stay, and create higher demand for tokens. With so few daily users, I'm concerned that any future adoption wave would see even more breadcrumbs with the whales growing increasingly stronger to be able to pull more rewards from the pool. This would suffocate the opportunity for larger populations to earn or accumulate anything without paying up for it. The whales will just dump their bags on people who buy into the dream and wind up being the new group of bag holders.
Yeah, it's one of those classic problems... if all the whales but one do the right thing... then that one profits the most.... but if none do the right thing then it's all worthless anyway.
I loved the concept of the EOS distribution... and then it all just ended up with the same 10 accounts anyway... I honestly don't know that the best/fairest system would be.
I was just thinking about this - how random it can all be. Like, a few guys got an invite a few years ago, mined some STEEM, some were good, some were bad... And now we still have to deal with those bad apples almost daily just because of that random invite years ago. What if you or I would have gotten that unique opportunity? We'll never know, but it's interesting to think about.
XD you really crack me up, matt :) what a refreshing spirit you are !
never change, matt~ never change~~~~ <3333333
in need of a steem jesus?
I think we already have one!
your voting behaviour is pretty jesus like.
It's been longer. I think Dan with his shades is the real hero. I'm off his radar at the moment, but he's helping hundreds of others who could really use it. If we had a few more good apples like that, this place would be infinitely better for the time being.