You talked about this yesterday and I had a discussion with my friend about this bid bot and upvote sales going on on this platform.

When I joined Steemit a month ago, it has a reputation of being a meritocratic platform but that is gradually dying away. What will happened when the reward pool has been raped by people buying upvote and bidding with upvote bots. What will then remain to reward quality content.

Are we returning to the society we came from where those who can afford to buy the pie gets the pie and those who cannot starve and wither away? Even though this is a decentralized platform but some things needs to be checked if this platform is to stand the test of time.