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RE: Addressing "The Ugly Truth Behind Steemit"
I see another major problem - good content is lost in the sea of other comments. People doing research and giving a lot of time to share useful information sometimes don't get even 1$ but billionaire businessman introducing himself with only line "I'm on Steemit" gets 10 000$. Do we really want Steemit to be oligarchic? How to fix it? How to get some balance in such matters?
It's a tough one. You could make the argument that big names joining are worth much more than unknown people writing great articles because they're attracting their big followings outside Steemit onto Steemit. At this stage, the platform needs growth and the unknown authors (even if they are talented) aren't solving the growth problem.
At some point, once you have critical mass the talent will need to be rewarded though. And you do run the risk of losing the great authors if it doesn't happen relatively soon.
I agree with you that big names are good for Steemit but probably we should wait for results or their brilliant posts instead of giving blind votes just for their name.