Yea @steemitdigest in a utopia that would be the case. But instead what I found out in the couple of days I am on here is that it's just 1 big ass kissing contest. All the people with high level profiles only kiss each others ass and up vote and re-share without even reading the articles. Some even use software to automatically up vote posts of other people with high profiles. When I read about steemit I thought it was a wonderful idea but it turned out quite the opposite. In 1 year time it became a prefect copy of the real world. By the elite for the elite with only 1 interest > SELF interest. Maybe if you are lucky and did enough ass licking you manage to get a high level profile and you reserved yourself a seat in the ass kissing circle.

How would you surpass google if you don't offer all the content google has plus more?
I post a very informative article which potentially can save lives. I give all the credits to the writer, with links to the original article. In a instant cheetah cries about finding the article online. The link it gives isn't even the original article but also a copy. Most people not even going to read the article once they see the cheetah comment.

Home made electric car for my kid, powered by a drill, this original article is obviously way more informative then the article I copied and it definitely needs to be resteemed cause it will improve many people's life (and the value of your steemit account). I think I got the hang of the way it works around here.