Building a Castle on Weak Foundations

Many years ago, I was playing with my little cousin around the bricks that our grandfather prepared to build some walls around his garden...
My cousin wanted me to build a castle for him. I improvised something using those bricks and some planks. Then my cousin told me that he wants to have a firmer castle that will endure through the ages. Then I started explaining him about building techniques and I told him that big walls around the castle are nothing if the foundations are not good.

Only with strong foundations, the castle will be able to stand strong.

This could be technically correct but today I would offer some different answers to my cousin.

The castle stands on the people! It depends on the people!

Ordinary people, peasants and poor citizens. They were majority in feudal society. When you are watching a historical movie in which few knights defend a medieval castle from a thousands of enemy soldiers, they actually defend important strategic positions or they protect simple people inside the walls. Empty and cold walls are nothing valuable to defend.

But in the mind of a medieval knight, more important than the people were kings, noblemen and persons that were highly positioned in church.

And those were only 1% of the society. The rest 99% were peasants and slaves.

These are the reasons why feudalism didn't work... You can't build a kingdom on the back spine of weak and poor people. Those foundations cannot hold the walls for rich and powerful lords and ladies! Actually, those noblemen should be the foundations for supporting the people.

So, were those castles built to protect the people or to keep those noblemen safe?

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And now I have to draw the line and compare this castle with Steemit.

Steemit is a social media platform where everyone gets paid for creating and curating content.

This is the question: was Steemit created for bloggers or for some elite minority to multiple their money? I don't want to criticize anyone but recently the bloggers are on the bottom of the Steemit pyramid.

I respect developers, they do awesome job here and of course they have to be payed for that. I also respect witnesses, this wouldn't be possible without them. Whales and dolphins are those who make us happy from time to time.

All of them are hard workers and you have to appreciate that!

The only problem is that I can't find a proper blog post on the trending page.

A post that is not about Steemit or development!

Steemit is the most popular topic on Steemit. But without bloggers it becomes an empty and cold castle. Without bloggers, Steemit will not need many developers, witnesses and whales. Without strong foundation, the castle could collapse!
Bloggers get the lowest rewards on Steemit and that makes it's foundations weak.

When bloggers get used to that, their content will become less quality. My own posts lately became shorter and less funny because I don't have some real support. But I still do it every day because I have awesome followers. And they have awesome posts with very low rewards.

Something has to change if Steemit wants to attract new users.

I started @whysoserious idea and I thought to empower @whysoserious account with rewards from my own posts. But 10 days ago, when I started with it, my rewards reduced to 5-6$ daily and I can't do much with that.

So, my own benefits are not important to me anymore.

I did all I did to make something move and also to help others which is really difficult from my position. I would like to support but with what? I really believe in my @whysoserious project but I don't have any funds to invest in it. Since being only blogger is not attractive to greasy voters, I'll probably have to power down a week or two to invest in @whysoserious. I already powered down before and it is not a nice feeling but this situation forces me to sacrifice. At least all my funds will stay on Steemit and Steemit bloggers will have some use of it.

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Thank you for having nerves to read this!