Welcome to Steemit.
Thanks a lot for your reference to this old post I made.
Democracy is defined by the level of participation of the community in the definition and construction of their common future.
You made me write again on Steemit. :)
Well, in the beginning, I used to make big posts until I find out that almost nobody could read it all. TLTR (Too long to read- for today).
So I had to divide the apple into pieces to make it digestible. :(
Even the last ones are still TLTR.
The evolution of Steemit is taking the same steps in the general society.
Changes are made in the interest of concentration of capital and impoverish the participation of all the majority of the Stakeholders that get less and less after any fork.
The voting bots (some were good) are turning in curator bots, Posts with small Steem are ignored, and the 50 % that should go to Human curation is now owned by the robots.
The system is rigged to favor the ones that have the capital creating resentment and demotivation in early users and small wallets.
This is not to demotivate you but to give force to new voices of community building and intelligence sharing, and fair equal distribution.
Cheers my friend and keep on.