RE: 'Is Steemit Becoming a Welfare State'- Addressing the Heart of the Issue EDITED (Including an original song by my amazing brother that poses a question-a challenge-to us all)
Your idea of peaceful protest via not voting for people to buy votes is GREAT. That's exactly the kind of thinking that I hope we can move towards as a community: Focusing on what we can accomplish with our own two hands.
It seems weird to me that anybody would upvote shitty content in hopes of earning a few bucks of curation rewards. There is a lot more money to be made by supporting the organic growth of steem by upvoting great content. If the steem price moons, it earns all of us a lot more than we'd ever get from nibbling on the curation side.
It's the difference between milking a little money out now vs. earning money for a lifetime by helping to build steem into a true mainstream powerhouse of content distribution/monetization. Personally, I'll focus on the latter.
Man, that GREAT was a much needed lift of my spirits! I generally steer clear of posting things like this, I'm primarily a writer of fiction- a novelist for the most part- and otherwise I love taking pictures, so I'll go to a winery by the lake for example and do Happy Wine Trail Wednesday with a ton of great pictures inside and out.
But I was feeling like I should take a vocal stand on the issue, because I truly see these things hurting our platform and holding back our token from reaching it's shot at the moon!