Is it? Steemit and Steem is in the hands of a few, and power is by far from equally distributed, driven by those who created it with super hyper inflation until dec 2016 getting the founders and some others rich and powerful. Most valuable votes are casted on auto vote to the same authors over and over again. That is the truth! Your comment is not describing the reality and you get rewarded. My comment is more closer to the truth and it didn't get rewarded. So, what is Value? Truth seems not to be the value here at Steemit, but Dreams are so it seems.