Apply this to Steemit. Look at the posts here. Look at how people interact with each other. My perception is that a lot of what's posted here is in the pursuit of money.
your full article is really written perfectly but I mention just this above statement as it is really right people need to interact with each other without any greedeness and encourage each other
and freedom of speech is really important factor for any social network
I must say downvoting is a negative point as according to your saying people get feered with it if they speek they will be downvoted with greater steem power so they will loose something hardly earned
first income is really need to be demonstrated to all over the world as here in our country people only depend on what they hardly earn with full day effort, every one need to awared of variety of ways to earn a good income without hard efforts as AI has made things possible now adays