Spoilers below.

The Dude starts the movie wanting his rug, and finds himself not needing the rug by the end of it.

Everyone on steemit wants a piece of the rug, and many users come from places in life where selling even a few threads can feed their family for a day. As long as people in the world require a source of material wealth to fill actual needs in their everyday lives interactions on steemit will remain hollow. Steem itself is scarce, and so are resources on planet earth.

This competition over the rug enables the animalistic, face-saving, egotistical behavior that is the antithesis of Dudeism, and until those who have enough reduce their desire for more and those who lack enough have their basic needs met we will always be asking for our own little rugs.