If you think it's just a ponzi scheme, you are selling it short. Just like America, Steemit has a government of the programmer, it was built by programmers, for programmers, Look at the amount of money people are throwing at all of these new useless widgets and pretty girl programmers working on their doctorate at asian coffee shop university. I saw one post today where a comment that said their link didn't work... raised over 10 bucks! These guys need to get...you know!