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RE: Stop being stingy with your upvotes. Hard Fork sure is creating funny reactions.
The problem in this game is Bernie. It will not help to be generous if majority of people don't behave that way. So you come to a question, does it make sense to give away your money upvoating others, if they don't do same to you. It s like a question what was first egg or chicken. IMO a society will never be mature enough to understand the multiplication of benefit. And so all great ideas finish as utopia. Example for that is the collapse of socialism as a system. Capitalism survived only because it is based on greed for profits, which perfectly corresponds to a human nature.
I think it is up to the leaders in the community, if they lead the way others will follow. Moreover those who show generousity and bring value will grow in follower base and prosper in long run. As they prosper their followers will prosper too. Those who take Bernie style play, will face abandonment and fail (are we gonna see mute used a lot?). Socialism didn't collapse, communism did. As matter of fact socialism is implemented in most if not all of the western world, just in different levels. I think calitalism and socialism can play together just fine, both have benefits for communities and societies. At this point I think steemit community should be more focused in attracting more people increasing user base, that will ensure success for all.
I partly agree. The situation that you are describing in the first part is likely to happen, but the most important role will have the strongest steemians, people with a lot of money, people with own interests and people who can turn crowd to work for them. Not saying that this will happen here, but almost every human project which started as a good idea ended because of the greed of human nature. The elites are created one or another way and it is about a matter of time when those elites start exploiting the crowd for own interests. Again, hope it wont happen here.
Socialism as a social-economical system is more or less dead. Socialism as a system, didn't have a free market, everything was planed. Monopoly companies owned by governments or their elites, limited economic initiative and depreciated property are characteristic components of socialism. Capitalism on the other hand, everything is private, the only purpose is to make profit and the market is free, not planed . What we have in EU or Canada and similar countries is 100% capitalism (open market, property, free economic initiative...) but is regulated in some areas IE Health care, educational system, pension system ...ETC with some degree of solidarity.